Homer's last theorem | Simon Singh | TEDxSalford

Описание: This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Simon Singh reveals how the Simpson's show 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 is an award-winning science broadcaster and the best-selling author of Fermat’s Last Theorem. He is an acclaimed keynote speaker on science, cosmology, mathematics and information security and regularly appears on TV & Radio to discuss these issues. Simon Singh’s parents emigrated from the Punjab in India to Britain in 1950. He grew up in Somerset, and studied physics at Imperial College London, before completing a PhD in particle physics at Cambridge University and at CERN, Geneva.

In 1990 he joined the BBC’s Science Department, where he was a producer and director of programmes such as Tomorrow’s World and Horizon. In 1996 he directed Fermat’s Last Theorem, a BAFTA award winning documentary about the world’s most notorious mathematical problem. The documentary was also aired in America as part of the NOVA series. The Proof, as it was re-titled, was nominated for an Emmy. His other publications include Big Bang, Trick or Treatment? and The Code Book.

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