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Part of The Simpsons' greatness is a willingness to find the humour in absolutely everything — including science. Executive producer Al Jean, the show's head writer and a Harvard mathematics graduate, talks to Nature about how to get a laugh out of Euler's formula.

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  1. Al Jean can be heard on this week's Nature Podcast, along with Homer, Lisa, Principal Skinner and Stephen Hawking.,

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Hopkin, M. Mmm... pi. Nature 448, 404–405 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/448404a

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