If you would look on the background of The Simpsons screenwriters you will find that many of them have a degree in mathematics or science. Being geeks, they used their knowledge to hide some geeky easter eggs in the show. In his book, The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets, Simon Singh tries to find them all and explain them.
The idea is simple. Let’s make a Google search for every number, from 0 to The Very Large Number; save the number of results returned by Google and plot them on a graph.
Simple, but with a very interesting outcome.
Richard Branson, alongside Elon Musk, Henry Ford and Howard Hughes, is one of the entrepreneurs I admire. When I saw his latest book, Like a Virgin: Secrets They Won’t Teach You at Business School, in a bookstore I knew I wouldn’t leave the store without it.