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Simpsons Guide to Math
tu-tone writes "The LA times has done an article titled
"Simpsons analysts show how math figures into episodes"
based off of work done by two professors Andrew Nestler and Sarah J. Greenwald. The work is a
Guide to Appearances of Mathematics and Mathematicians on "The Simpsons"
. They even gave a talk on it at Harvey Mudd College. It's a fun read." There's a transcript of one of their presentations available.
What? 'Math' is a perfectly cromulent word!
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
marge's hair contains a hidden fractal
My attention span isn't long enough to read the whole article. Damn TV! You've ruined my imagination! Just like you've ruined my ability to ... my ability to ...
[turns on Itchy and Scratchy]
Insert simplistic political, ideological, or personal proselytization here.
In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
- Homer Jay Simpson
Derivitive of R cubed. rdrr. I think it was in episode 2.
>Marge: Now I know you haven't liked some of my past suggestions, like switching to the metric system.
>Grampa: The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!
Let's see....
40 rods/Hogshead x
1 mile/320 rods x
1 Hogshead/63 gallons =
0.00198 miles/gallon or
504 gallons/mile
Perhaps Grampa drives an SUV?
Take off, every Hoser
I think it's merely "Ha ha! They're so geeky that they memorized the first umpteen digits of pi for fun!"
Nobody 3.14159 really 2653589 does 7932384 that, 62643383 do 27950288 they?
The speed of time is one second per second.
In it's traditional form, [e^(pi*i)]+1=0, it relates the 5 most important constants in math...
...and is beaten only by 0*i*pi*e = 1+-1