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News US World Sports Comment Culture Business Money Environment Science Travel Tech Media Life & style Data Culture Television & radio The Simpsons The Simpsons' secret formula: it's written by maths geeks When one of Britain's best-known science writers went to Los Angeles to meet the show's writers for a new book, he found a team dedicated to inserting gags about complex maths problems. And you thought it was just a cartoon… Share 462

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Simon Singh The Observer, Saturday 21 September 2013 Jump to comments (309)

The Simpsons: TV's secret mathematicians. Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext/20th Century Fox Without doubt, the most mathematically sophisticated television show in the history of primetime broadcasting is The Simpsons. This is not a figment of my deranged mind, which admittedly is obsessed with both The Simpsons and mathematics, but rather it is a conc

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