article_snippet: In fact one of the script writers for the episode, David X. Cohen, was responsible for sneaking in the mathematical equations onto the blackboard.
article_snippet: It is not the only piece of science hidden within the long running cartoon series.
article_snippet: Elsewhere in the series there are numerous jokes about perfect numbers and mersenne primes and the first ever full episode had a joke about calculus.
article_snippet: This may be because many of the writers of the show were mathematicians themselves.
article_snippet: Dr Singh said Dr Singh hoped the maths in the cartoon might even help persuade more people to take an interest in the subject.
article_snippet: Dr Singh was such a brilliant young mathematician that Dr Singh went to Harvard University when Dr Singh was only sixteen years old. '
article_snippet: I think the show gives a big endorsement of nerd culture.'
highlights_snippet: Jokes about calculus, pi and Fermat's last theorem appear in the cartoon .
  
highlights_snippet: Many of the script writers for the cartoon are known to be mathematicians .