A photo from open sources to Homer Simpson, the main character himself a long and successful American animated series, seventeen years old ago almost managed to predict the mass of the Higgs boson – almost the most important elementary for modern theoretical physics particles. About This Daily The British Independent reported non-fiction writer Simon Singh.
The second episode of the tenth season, called “The Wizard Evergreen Terrace “and aired on September 20 1998, tells that the father of the Simpsons family, suffering from a midlife crisis, decides to do science and, following the example of Thomas Edison, invent a pair of useful to humanity of things. Trying his abilities, he writes several formulas on the board, one of which with surprising accuracy indicates the mass of the scalar particles.
It is worth noting that Homer Simpson in the animated series usually portrayed as a person with exceptionally low intellectual opportunities, unable to solve mathematical problems from primary school textbooks, and the vast majority of viewers clearly took his formulas frivolously.
According to Simon Singh, a world-famous television show The Simpsons abounds with a huge amount of algebraic equations, facts and professional mathematical humor. First episode The series, shown twenty-six years ago, contained a joke on subject of matanalysis; in other series the last theorem was mentioned Farm, Mandelbrot set, Mersenne numbers, perfect digital invariants and much more. The writer is convinced that The Simpsons The most math show available to a wide audience. IN this is not surprising, since some of its screenwriters are Harvard graduates and do not miss the opportunity from time to insert jokes “for their own” into the animated series.
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