The Mathematics of the Simpsons Dave Ebert

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”

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

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

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

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

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

The Pythagorean Theorem?

Pi

Geometry

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.

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Derivatives

The Mathematics of the Simpsons Dave Ebert