He reveals how the writers have drip-fed morsels of number theory into the series over the last twenty-five years indeed, there are so many mathematical references in The Simpsons, and in its sister program, Futurama, that they could form the basis of an entire university course. Simon Singh, bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem, The Code Book and The Big Bang, instead makes the compelling case that what The Simpsons' writers are most passionate about is mathematics. Some have seen philosophy embedded in episodes of The Simpsons others have detected elements of psychology and religion.
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