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1、DedicatedtoAnitaandHariη+ψ=εContentsCHAPTER0TheTruthAboutTheSimpsonsCHAPTER1BarttheGeniusCHAPTER2Areyouπ-Curious?CHAPTER3Homer’sLastTheoremCHAPTER4ThePuzzleofMathematicalHumorEXAMINATIONICHAPTER5SixDegreesofSeparationCHAPTER6LisaSimpson,QueenofStatsandBatsCHAPTER7Galgebraan

2、dGalgorithmsEXAMINATIONIICHAPTER8APrime-TimeShowCHAPTER9ToInfinityandBeyondCHAPTER10TheScarecrowTheoremEXAMINATIONIIICHAPTER11Freeze-FrameMathematicsCHAPTER12AnotherSliceofπCHAPTER13Homer3EXAMINATIONIVCHAPTER14TheBirthofFuturamaCHAPTER151,729andaRomanticIncidentCHAPTER16AOn

3、e-SidedStoryCHAPTER17TheFuturamaTheoremEXAMINATIONVEπLOGUEAPPENDIX1TheSabermetricsApproachinSoccerAPPENDIX2MakingSenseofEuler’sEquationAPPENDIX3Dr.Keeler’sRecipefortheSumofSquaresAPPENDIX4FractalsandFractionalDimensionsAPPENDIX5Keeler’sTheoremACKNOWLEDGMENTSONLINERESOURCESP

4、ICTURECREDITSBYTHESAMEAUTHORCHAPTER0TheTruthAboutTheSimpsonsTheSimpsonsisarguablythemostsuccessfultelevisionshowinhistory.Inevitably,itsglobalappealandenduringpopularityhavepromptedacademics(whotendtooveranalyzeeverything)toidentifythesubtextoftheseriesandtoasksomeprofoundq

5、uestions.WhatarethehiddenmeaningsofHomer’sutterancesaboutdoughnutsandDuffbeer?DothespatsbetweenBartandLisasymbolizesomethingbeyondmeresiblingbickering?ArethewritersofTheSimpsonsusingtheresidentsofSpringfieldtoexplorepoliticalorsocialcontroversies?Onegroupofintellectualsauth

6、oredatextarguingthatTheSimpsonsessentiallyprovidesviewerswithaweeklyphilosophylecture.TheSimpsonsandPhilosophyclaimstoidentifyclearlinksbetweenvariousepisodesandtheissuesraisedbyhistory’sgreatthinkers,includingAristotle,Sartre,andKant.Chaptersinclude“Marge’sMoralMotivation,

7、”“TheMoralWorldoftheSimpsonFamily:AKantianPerspective,”and“ThusSpakeBart:OnNietzscheandtheVirtuesofBeingBad.”Alternatively,ThePsychologyofTheSimpsonsarguesthatSpringfield’smostfamousfamilycanhelpusgraspadeeperunderstandingofthehumanmind.Thiscollectionofessaysusesexamplesfro

8、mtheseriestoexploreissuessuchasaddiction,lobotomies,andevolutionarypsychology.Byco