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Poetry
This section is dedicated to all those who have spent any significant amount of time
writing poetry about non-standard subjects (Star Trek, Fractals, etc) because though
few appreciate your geeky labors of love, at least somebody does, right?
Well, actually, probably not. In creative arts only about 10% of what's produced at
any given time is actually halfway decent. Sorry, it's the cold hard truth. However, in the
spirit of literary open-mindedness, we'll feature some of the best of science/nerd-related
poetry.
Unfortunately, we were unable to get permission from all of the authors featured here. If you
are surprised to see something that you wrote then go do a little secret ego-boost jig and
contact us if you don't want it up here.
Carbon
Most beautiful of elements.
Such infinite variety,
Chains, rings, branches, buckyballs, side groups, aromatics.
Your index of refraction kills shahs and speculators
Carbon.
You who were with us in the streets of Saigon,
You were everywhere, floating in the air
Invisible in the fear and sweat,
The napalm.
Without you we are nothing.
Carbon we were and carbon we shall become.
- From Mount Dragon
Haiku ++
Haiku double-plus:
The object-oriented
Poetic format.
- From Nerdly Jaikus
Screensaver
My screensaver runs --
Multicolored lines cascade
No unused cycles!
- From Nerdly Jaikus
ST: The Next Haiku
Precious green liquid
Pooling upon alien soil.
Bones says, "He's dead, Jim."
- From Nerdly Jaikus
Sleep Deprivation
The program compiles,
I compose email to friends,
All is well tonight.
- From Nerdly Jaikus
Fermat's Last Theorum
When Fermat Vapours clog our loaded Brows,
With furrow'd frowns, when stupid downcast Eyes
Th'external Symptoms of some Gap within
Our Proof express, or when in sullen Dumps
With Head Incumbent on Expanded Palm,
Moping we sit, our Gaulloise snuffed, deform'd,
Sing then, Oh Wiles, and Taylor, Wiles!
Oh trio: put Fermata to our Toils.
- Barry Mazur, from Fermat's Last Theorum Poetry Challenge
Rational, modular
cohomologically
Wiles and Taylor
prove they
both are the same. Modular, rational
nonarchimedian
methods now
justify
Fermat's old claim.
- Anonymous, from Fermat's Last Theorum Poetry Challenge
The time has come, Fermat opined,
to talk of many things,
of GL_2 and flat group schemes,
and local Hecke rings,
and which ideals are Eisenstein,
and Wiles's wild flings.
- Anonymous, from Fermat's Last Theorum Poetry Challenge
We study the proof of Fermat.
Take Shimura-Taniyama
And the Frey elliptic curve.
Between them there is a tie
As suggested by Gerhard Frey.
Along came Jean-Pierre Serre
Who formulated with great care
The episilon conjecture
Which as a tie would serve.
And yes the conjecture did fit
As demonstrated by Ribet.
Then it remained to consider
Representations modular.
Seven years later,
Came the announcement of Wiles.
But that was not the ending,
We needed the Taylor mending.
Now at last we all have smiles.
- Sharon Ann Kineke , from Fermat's Last Theorum Poetry Challenge
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