Mathematique

Running out of blog content. I assure you that I'll have something to write about by this weekend..

For the time being, I've decided to try my hand at poem writing.. Seems like a good idea cause Shermin always does it and I am a literature student after all :)

And i decided that the theme shall be mathematics since its challenging..

History of mathematics (part I)

Early thinkers seemed to know
that two from two would make zero
regardless of what they were

They used this knowledge to run their fields
To keep track of what was in the mill
They realized it was a useful skill
To know the numbers from nil

Then came the famous brotherhood
Who said that all numbers were good
But when they found irrationality
They threw a member into the sea

This anti-number number
Made all of them astounded
It destroyed the simple ideals
In which the sect was founded.

The world thus turned from number
Afraid of the irrational monster
And a thousand years thereafter
there were to be no maths on paper

Instead they focused all their minds
On points and squares, circles and lines
And it all seemed to work just fine
Till people started to repine

Then came descartes' x and y's
That linked numbers with points and lines
And showed all of the other guys
That Algebra is Geometry

Thus from then they knew the world
Was simply never rational
And any form of b/c
Is simply not to be

But that was only the beginning
Theorems and formulas were awaiting
For mathematicians to spend the evening
To discover, and to invent



Fine fine i know my poem lacks emotion and atmosphere. So what its factual (I hope)
and simple and easy to understand. I will continue this part I... better write it down..

To be continued.....