The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets by Simon Singh Review

The chances are, you have watched an episode of the Simpsons; or atleast heard of the television program. There is also a fair chance that you have watched hundreds of the Simpsons, without realising there are hundreds of hidden jokes, inserted into the program, by the mathematical masterminds behind the show. In, 'The Simpson and their Mathematical Secrets', Simon Singh talks about these hidden jokes, giving examples, thus investigating who wrote the Simpsons, and soon realising how many of the writers were well-renowned mathematicians, with many attending Ivy League universities to study math or similar subjects, furthermore, finding out that many carried on studying to get a PhD.
Simon Singh writes about many Simpson episodes such as 'Bart the Genius', and 'The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace', explaining where the inspiration for jokes, such as when Homer seems to disprove 'Fermat's Last Theorem', in which there is a blackboard with some math problems, one of which, if you were to input into a normal calculator, would disprove 'Fermat's Last Theorem', when instead it was just so close to being correct (the number is 0.000000002% larger than it should be to be correct to be precise), perplexing many at home, who were wondering how on earth this could be. This is just touching on one of the many hidden mathematical jokes hidden in the Simpsons.
With detail, and a clear, true interest in the subject, 'The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets', is a cleverly, and carefully, written book for any Simpsons or maths enthusiast.
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