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This post is part of a series inspired by , a SundanceTV docu-series that follows 15 New York City teenagers who left high school and are now trying to get back on track to gra

Of course it caught my eye.  Any headline containing both “The Simpsons” and the phrase “most mathematical” was a slam dunk.

Ask Charlie Sitler for his favorite mathematician and he’ll be glad to tell you: Georg Cantor (1845-1918). “I crossed paths with his ideas at Fordham College. Cantor proved that there were actually different types of infinity—a veritable hierarchy of infinities, if you will.

Ah!  It’s Valentine’s Day, and a young man’s fancy turns to…mathematics?

Science is elegant.  Mathematics is beautiful.