Maths in 1998 episode predicts particle's mass 14 years before CERN
Author and physicist Dr Simon Singh found a formula for the mass of the Higgs boson written on a blackboard during an episode of The Simpsons
In The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace, Homer Simpson becomes an inventor
Dr Singh says The Simpsons contains more maths than any other TV show
He says it is amazing that Homer appears to have predicted the mass of the Higgs boson long before the Large Hadron Collider gave us proof it existed
Jokes about calculus, pi and Fermat's last theorem appear in the cartoon
Many of the script writers for the cartoon are known to be mathematicians
