Table of Contents
Chapter 0 The Truth About the Simpsons 1
Chapter 1 Bart the Genius 5
Chapter 2 Are You Π-Curious? 17
Chapter 3 Homer's Last Theorem 26
Chapter 4 The Puzzle of Mathematical Humor 38
Examination I 51
Chapter 5 Six Degrees of Separation 54
Chapter 6 Lisa Simpson, Queen of States and Bats 63
Chapter 7 Galgebra and Galgorithms 78
Examination II 88
Chapter 8 A Prime-Time Show 90
Chapter 9 To Infinity and Beyond 104
Chapter 10 The Scarecrow Theorem 114
Examination III 126
Chapter 11 Freeze-Frame Mathematics 128
Chapter 12 Another Slice of π 140
Chapter 13 Homer3 151
Examination IV 162
Chapter 14 The Birth of Futurama 166
Chapter 15 1,729 and a Romantic Incident 180
Chapter 16 A One-Sided Story 193
Chapter 17 The Futurama Theorem 203
Examination V 214
Epilogue 217
Appendix 1 The Sabermetrics Approach in Soccer 221
Appendix 2 Making Sense of Euler's Equation 223
Appendix 3 Dr. Keeler's Recipe for the Sum of Squares 225
Appendix 4 Fractals and Fractional Dimensions 227
Appendix 5 Keeler's Theorem 229
Acknowledgments 231
Online Resources 235
Picture Credits 237
Index 239
