The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series) Starship "Heart of Gold", which has been stolen by Ford's semi-cousin Zaphod Beeblebrox, accompanied by Trillian, a young woman who Arthur once met at a party. Ford and Arthur are escorted to the bridge by Marvin the Paranoid Android and meet Zaphod and Trillian. The episode ends after they are introduced, with no cliffhanger. First Broadcast on BBC Two, 19 January 1981 The episode opens with a guide entry explaining the legendary planet of Magrathea, which manufactured planets millions of years ago, until the galactic economy collapsed. Zaphod has been explaining to Ford that he has found the legendary planet
Phrases from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Riemann surface with a maximal number of symmetries and as a symmetry of Hyperbolic tiling made up of combinations of triangles with angle angles π/2, π/3, and π/7 . Rumours that mathematicians are grey mice have been disproved, however. The 42 Puzzle is a game devised by Douglas Adams in 1994 for the United States series of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" books. The puzzle is an illustration consisting of 42 multi-coloured balls, in 7 columns and 6 rows. Douglas Adams has said, In the puzzle the question is unknown, but the answer is already known to be 42.