He came up with Futurama.
1729 crops up in "Futurama." It crops up as the hull registry number of the Nimbus spaceship.
in this sci-fi animated sitcom called "Futurama." It doesn't just stop there, because you can then ask, OK
But that number also appears in "Futurama." It's called a taxicab number of order 3, and it appears as a taxicab number in Futurama.
There was a paper not by Fry from "Futurama" by Michael Fry and Michael Osborne that said that look at the future of employment,
And he was also keen to recruit mathematicians to join the "Futurama" writing team.
So you had new mathematicians coming to join "Futurama," working with David X. Cohen to create a series which was also going to have tons of mathematics in it.
And that's why it keeps on appearing in "Futurama." It's Ken Keeler's way of just acknowledging this great genius, Ramanujan.
Yeah. "Futurama." "Futurama." So talk a little bit about going from a scrappy, upstart, small team to like, kind of the second
And one thing that Gregg and I said to Matt about "Futurama" was, look, if it's going to be a science fiction show, the
Segundo, trabajar para evitar que futuras víctimas caigan en esa trampa mortal.
Great. Because you wrote for "Futurama." And-- DAVID A. GOLDEN: I did.
And I was just curious if you could talk about the experience at "Orville" versus "Futurama." DAVID A. GOLDEN: Well, the difference at "Orville"
Actually, Seth got me the job on "Futurama" after "Family Guy" was canceled In its third season.
He's put mathematics into "The Simpsons" and he's going to put mathematics into "Futurama" as well.
And this is him scribbling it up on the whiteboard in the Futurama offices, which is why it's of great historical significance.
So that's the extent of the kind of stuff that goes on in "Futurama." I'll just give you one example from "Futurama,"
And then, why "The Simpsons" and why "Futurama"-- I have a chapter in the book about why
And "Family Guy" was kind of happening at the same time as "Futurama." So Fox was really kind of banking.
So rather than go on about "The Simpsons" further, I did want to talk about "Futurama," because "Futurama" is the sister series of "The Simpsons"
So it's special but not special enough to justify being cited so many times in "Futurama." And the real reason why 1729 keeps cropping up
Back in the 1930s at the World's Fair, there was this exhibit called "Futurama," and was built by General Motors.
Back in the 1930s at the World's Fair, there was this exhibit called "Futurama," and was built by General Motors.
And after that was finished-- see, Matt, even from season two of "Simpsons," always had the idea for "Futurama." I remember one afternoon, he
took David, Wes and I-- the other directors-- out to lunch, and kind of pitched through this idea for "Futurama." And we were like, that sounds really cool, Matt.
It's, again, taking that concept that we were talking about with "Futurama," of how to kind of marry 2D and 3D together.