1. The Mathematics of the Simpsons Dave Ebert dde@oregon.k12.wi.us www.oregonsd.com/webpages/debert

2. The Simpsons The longest-running scripted show in television history, starting in December, 1989 February 2012 – the 500 th episode 27 Emmy Awards Five U.S. postage stamps Time Magazine named The Simpsons the “Best Show of the 20 th Century”

3. J. Stewart Burns Bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Harvard Senior thesis on The Structure of Group Algebras Master’s degree in mathematics from UC Berkeley

4. David S. Cohen (David X. Cohen) Member, New Jersey high school state champion mathematics team Bachelor’s degree (magna cum laude) in physics from Harvard Master’s degree in computer science from UC Berkeley Published in Discrete Applied Mathematics Still belongs to a math club

5. Al Jean Bachelor’s degree (cum laude) in mathematics from Harvard Current executive producer and head writer of The Simpsons

6. Ken Keeler Bachelor’s degree (summa cum laude) and PhD in applied mathematics from Harvard Doctoral thesis: Map Representations and Optimal Encoding for Image Segmentation Published in Discrete Applied Mathematics

7. Jeff Westbrook Bachelor’s degree in physics and the history of science and PhD in computer science from Princeton Doctoral thesis: Algorithms and Data Structures for Dynamic Graph Algorithms Associate professor at Yale Published in Discrete Applied Mathematics

8. The Pythagorean Theorem?

10. Pi

14. Geometry

16. Fermat’s Last Theorem a n + b n = c n No integers a, b, and c can satisfy this equation for any n greater than 2.

18. 1782 12 + 1841 12 = 1922 12 3987 12 + 4365 12 = 4472 12

20. Derivatives

24. The Mathematics of the Simpsons Dave Ebert dde@oregon.k12.wi.us www.oregonsd.com/webpages/debert