This enrichment lecture is based on ideas from Simon Singh’s book ‘The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets’. It covers Fermat’s Last Theorem, Mersenne primes, perfect numbers, narcissistic numbers, binary numbers and rock-paper-scissors. The slides include footage from The Simpsons, Futurama and The Big Bang Theory.
There are 6 videos embedded in the slides which I believe you will have to save alongside the presentation to make sure they run when clicked.
If you’d like some help preparing speaking notes for these slides please tweet me (@mathsjem).
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Thanks! I wish I'd found this a few months ago, as I did my own version of this recently. Great resource.
Thank you for this. I went to this lecture at leeds university and thought it was absolutely awesome (then bought the book). Definitely recommend, as maybe an A Level school trip. That is if he does any more.
Absolutely fantastic resource!!
Lovely resource for looking into the Math used in TV programmes, really like the explanations too. Thanks for sharing.
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