1. Math in Pop Culture By: Jimmy Hoover and Casey Woron

2. Pop Culture  is the totality of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, images, and other phenomena that are deemed preferred per an informal consensus within the mainstream of a given culture  especially Western culture of the early to mid 20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the late 20th and early 21st century

3. Pop Culture in the 20th Century  Saw a major shift in the way that vast numbers of people lived, as a result of changes in politics, ideology economics, society, culture, science, technology, and medicine.  Technologies introduced  T.V.  Radio  DVD  Cold war  dominate geopolitical life for the next 45 years  Space Race  Saw a major shift in the way that vast numbers of people lived, as a result of changes in politics, ideology economics, society, culture, science, technology, and medicine.  Technologies introduced  T.V.  Radio  DVD  Cold war  dominate geopolitical life for the next 45 years  Space Race

4. 20th Century  World War Two  Medicine  Antibiotics, vaccines, placebo experiments, vitamins  Science  The theory of relativity and quantum physics discovered  Radiocarbon dating  Changed the science world

5. Pop Culture in the 21st Century  Terrorism on the rise  Wireless technologies  Technology society  Increasing popularity of digital formats for entertainment media such as movies and music

6. 21  Movie where MIT student goes to Las Vegas to make money counting cards  Money to go towards his scholarship  Counting cards uses probability  Uses ratios of high and low cards  By knowing which cards already came up you can accurately guess what will be next  math? math?  Movie where MIT student goes to Las Vegas to make money counting cards  Money to go towards his scholarship  Counting cards uses probability  Uses ratios of high and low cards  By knowing which cards already came up you can accurately guess what will be next  math? math?

7. Simpsons  Fox Broadcasting  Debut in 1989  Al Jean  Executive Producer and head writer  a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Harvard University

8. Simpsons: Bart the Genious  When Bart doesn’t have a ticket and asks how much it will be Martin replies, “Twice the fare from Tucson to Flagstaff minus two-thirds of the fare from Albuquerque to El Paso! Ha ha ha ha!”  One child genius says “Tell you what, Bart, Ill trade you the weight of a bowling ball on the eighth moon of Jupiter for my lunch, for the weight of a feather on the second moon of Neptune from your lunch. ”  A gifted child tells Bart that he will trade him 1000 Pico liters of his milk for 4 gills of Bart’s.

9. Simpsons: Dead Putting Society  Lisa uses a measuring tape to help Bart play miniature golf  The basis of this game seems to be simple geometry She instructs him where exactly to hit the ball Bart is stunned when he makes the shot and states, “I cant believe it, You actually found a practical use for geometry  Lisa uses a measuring tape to help Bart play miniature golf  The basis of this game seems to be simple geometry She instructs him where exactly to hit the ball Bart is stunned when he makes the shot and states, “I cant believe it, You actually found a practical use for geometry

10. Simpsons: Brush with Greatness  Professor Lombardo, Marge's art teacher comes up to her during class  “You learn to see everyday objects as a simple grouping of geometric shapes. Here we see how two concentric circles, various trapezoids, ellipses and, yes, even a rhombus, can create an adorable little bunny rabbit.”

11. Simpsons: Springfield  Homer finds glasses in the toilet and tries to act smart in front of the mirror  Homer: “The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side.”  Man in stall: “That’s a right triangle, you idiot!

12. Numb3rs  An American television drama that premiered in 2005  About an FBI agent and his mathematical genius brother  Uses many different types of math to solve crimes and find criminals  An American television drama that premiered in 2005  About an FBI agent and his mathematical genius brother  Uses many different types of math to solve crimes and find criminals

13. Numb3rs: Hangman  Flash Bang Thwack  Uses the golden ratio and Fibonacci sequence  By successively drawing an arc between vertices of each square in a golden rectangle, you can approximate a golden spiral.

14. Numb3rs: Magic Show  Blood Splatter Trigonometry  A moving droplet of blood will eventually hit a surface. At the initial instance of contact, the spherical droplet will be tangent to the intercepting surface. The type of spatter the blood droplet leaves on the surface strongly depends on its direction and speed.  Volume Calculations  cylinder  Blood Splatter Trigonometry  A moving droplet of blood will eventually hit a surface. At the initial instance of contact, the spherical droplet will be tangent to the intercepting surface. The type of spatter the blood droplet leaves on the surface strongly depends on its direction and speed.  Volume Calculations  cylinder

15. Cast Away The path of the sun on the rock is used as a calendar. Math?

16. Harold and Kumar  Poem on the number square root of three and roots  Kumar uses it to get the love of his life to marry him  The Poem consists of rules in rooting numbers and properties of the square root of three  Poem on the number square root of three and roots  Kumar uses it to get the love of his life to marry him  The Poem consists of rules in rooting numbers and properties of the square root of three

17. Poem  I’m sure that I will always be a lonely number like root three  The three is all that’s good and right,Why must my three keep out of sight, Beneath the vicious square root sign,I wish instead I were a nine  For nine could thwart this evil trick,with just some quick arithmetic  I know I’ll never see the sun, as 1.7321. Such is my reality, a sad irrationality  When hark! What is this I see, Another square root of a three As quietly co-waltzing by, Together now we multiply, to form a number we prefer, Rejoicing as an integer  I’m sure that I will always be a lonely number like root three  The three is all that’s good and right,Why must my three keep out of sight, Beneath the vicious square root sign,I wish instead I were a nine  For nine could thwart this evil trick,with just some quick arithmetic  I know I’ll never see the sun, as 1.7321. Such is my reality, a sad irrationality  When hark! What is this I see, Another square root of a three As quietly co-waltzing by, Together now we multiply, to form a number we prefer, Rejoicing as an integer

18. October Sky  Free fall differential equations  They use trigonometry to prove their rockets did not cause a fire in the woods  math? math?  Free fall differential equations  They use trigonometry to prove their rockets did not cause a fire in the woods  math? math?

19. A Beautiful Mind  John Nash  Multivariable Calculus  Riemann Hypothesis  The Riemann hypothesis implies results about the distribution of prime numbers that are in some ways as good as possible  John Nash  Multivariable Calculus  Riemann Hypothesis  The Riemann hypothesis implies results about the distribution of prime numbers that are in some ways as good as possible

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