![]() Singh is working too far in the open to be smuggling anything. As Singh puts it, "the writers of The Simpsons and Futurama have been smuggling complex mathematical ideas onto prime-time television for almost a quarter of a century". ![]() For everyone else, the book is still a fine introduction to the more recreational aspects of mathematics: you'll find jokes about Fermat's theorem (the topic of a previous Singh book), topology, statistics and many more complicated puzzles and games. You'll find jokes about Fermat's theorem (the topic of a previous Singh book), topology, statistics and many more complicated puzzles and games.įor fans, the book provides an opportunity to go back over episodes where some of the mathematical detail got missed the first time round, particularly the freeze-frame mathematical jokes made possible by VCRs and, even more, DVDs. ![]()
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