Homer's last theorem | Simon Singh | TEDxSalford

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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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Had him as a lecturer at a physics event this week in London. Truly a fascinating speaker

-st
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Simon Singh's haircut was great. He looked like a college gangster.

billy.
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One of my favorite Simpson references was to Sideshow Bob's prisoner number being 24601

RasperHelpdesk
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The last line below Fermat's last theorem is a topology shenanigan. A torus cannot be deformed to a sphere. :P

chounoki
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742 may be "just a number", but I know why the "Simpsons'" writers picked it. Creator Matt Groening grew up in 742 Evergreen Terrace, Portland, Oregon.

darreljones
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He should not just say "There's no solution". He should say "There are no POSITIVE INTEGERS that satisfy the equation for n>2".

ishma
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anyone else accidentally read his name as Simpson Singh?

neiloppa
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Has anybody read the book? I've seen lots of Simon Singh's videos on youtube. Does the book have more new stuff?

SquirrelASMR
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The association of the main numbers in the field of mathematics with each other, reflects numerical sequences that correspond to the dimensions of the Earth, the Moon, and the Sun in the unit of measurement in meters, which is: 1' (second) / 299792458 m/s (speed of light in a vacuum).

Perfect Number: 8, 128 is the fourth of the numbers considered perfect.
Earth's equatorial diameter 12, 756 km.
8, 128 / 12, 756 x (10^4) = 6, 371.90
Earth's average radius: 6, 371 km.

Golden Angle: 137.5
Perfect Number: 8.128
Pi: 3.14
(137.5 ^ 3.14) / 8.128 x 10 - 1 = 6, 371.16
Earth's average radius: 6, 371 km.

Ramanujan number: 1, 729
Earth's equatorial radius: 6, 378 km.
Golden number: 1.61803...
• (1, 729 x 6, 378 x (10^-3)) ^1.61803 x (10^-3) = 3, 474.18
Moon's diameter: 3, 474 km.

Ramanujan number: 1, 729
Speed of light: 299, 792, 458 m/s
Earth's Equatorial Diameter: 12, 756 km. Earth's Equatorial Radius: 6, 378 km.
• (1, 729 x 299, 792, 458) / 12, 756 / 6, 378) = 6, 371
Earth's average radius: 6, 371 km.

The Cubit
The cubit = Pi - phi^2 = 0.5236
Lunar distance: 384, 400 km.
(0.5236 x (10^6) - 384, 400) x 10 = 1, 392, 000
Sun´s diameter: 1, 392, 000 km.

Higgs Boson: 125.35 (GeV)
Phi: 1.61803...
(125.35 x (10^-1) - 1.61803) x (10^3) = 10, 916.97
Circumference of the Moon: 10, 916 km.

Golden number: 1.618
Golden Angle: 137.5
Earth's equatorial radius: 6, 378
Universal Gravitation G = 6.67 x 10^-11 N.m^2/kg^2.
(((1.618 ^137.5) / 6, 378) / 6.67) x (10^-20) = 12, 756.62
Earth’s equatorial diameter: 12, 756 km.

The Euler Number is approximately: 2.71828...
Newton’s law of gravitation: G = 6.67 x 10^-11 N.m^2/kg^2. Golden number: 1.618ɸ
(2.71828 ^ 6.67) x 1.618 x 10 = 12, 756.23
Earth’s equatorial diameter: 12, 756 km.

Planck’s constant: 6.63 × 10-34 m2 kg.
Circumference of the Moon: 10, 916.
Gold equation: 1, 618 ɸ
(((6.63 ^ (10, 916 x 10^-4 )) x 1.618 x (10^3)= 12, 756.82
Earth’s equatorial diameter: 12, 756 km.

Planck's temperature: 1.41679 x 10^32 Kelvin.
Newton’s law of gravitation: G = 6.67 x 10^-11 N.m^2/kg^2.
Speed of Sound: 340.29 m/s
(1.41679 ^ 6.67) x 340.29 - 1 = 3, 474.81
Moon's diameter:: 3, 474 km.

Cosmic microwave background radiation
2.725 kelvins, 160.4 GHz,
Pi: 3.14
Earth's polar radius: 6, 357 km.
((2, 725 x 160.4) / 3.14 x (10^4) - (6, 357 x 10^-3) = 1, 392, 000
The diameter of the Sun: 1, 392, 000 km.

Numbers 3, 6 & 9 - Nikola Tesla

One Parsec = 206265 AU = 3.26 light-years = 3.086 × 10^13 km.
The Numbers: 3, 6 and 9

((3^6) x 9) - (3.086 x (10^3)) -1 = 3, 474
The Moon's diameter: 3, 474 km.

Now we will use the diameter of the Moon.
Moon's diameter: 3, 474 km.
(3.474 + 369 + 1) x (10^2) = 384, 400
The term L.D (Lunar Distance) refers to the average distance between the Earth and the Moon, which is 384, 400 km.

Moon's diameter: 3, 474 km.
((3+6+9) x 3 x 6 x 9) - 9 - 3 + 3, 474 = 6, 378
Earth's equatorial radius: 6, 378 km.

Book: Orion. The Connection between Heaven and Earth eBook / By: Gustavo Muniz

carlosalexandreFAT
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Fun fact: 742 is the smallest number that isn't interesting

ChristopherKing
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1729 smallest a^2+b^2=c^3+d^3, a=10 b=9 c=1 and d=12...its story I read in a mathematics magazine in my school days

jdisira
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There are plenty of solutions to that equation, just none where all numbers are integers.

Tamizushi
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3:26 when is the theorem mentioned in doctor who?

TheDatolo
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can you gys tell me what's about the 911 number appearing in the same serie it canfused me a lot i need an answer plz . thnks

badierida
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742 is interesting, because it’s the only non-noteworthy number in the history of the Simpsons.

gddanielk
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He said "Not many numbers are the sum of 2 cubes." (11:57) In fact, there is an infinite number of numbers that are the sum of 2 cubes.

CyberSERT
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Yeah 742 is just a number, but I literally just got to the end at that part and my phone was 7:07... and I had 42% charge.

eschelar
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1729 is also the third Carmichael number (aka Fermat pseudoprime)

twistedlot
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It irks me because the Theorem is that it has no WHOLE NUMBER solutions, not not solutions in general.

sebastianportalatin
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* INTEGER solutions, no INTEGER solutions

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