I was remembering that April is National Poetry month and thinking about what I wanted to do to recognize it. I started to wonder if April was only National Poetry Month. I let my fingers do the typing and according to Wikipedia the following are a few other April observances :
Autism Awareness Month
Financial Literacy Month
Jazz Appreciation Month
Mathematics Awareness Month
National Child Abuse Prevention Month
National Poetry Month
National Volunteer Month
Sexual Assault Awareness Month
I thought it would be fun to post a mathematics poem but shockingly there just aren’t that many “Ode to a trig proof ” out there.
Here are a couple limericks I found.
from: Fermat’s Last Theorem Poetry Challenge, Two Limericks
by Ted Munger
With an integer greater than 2
It’s something one simply can’t do. If this margin were fat,
I’d show you all that,
But it’s not, so the proof is on you!
by Jeremy Teitelbaum
We take an elliptic curve E,
Consider the points killed by 3,
This “rho” must be modular,
And by facts which are popular,
The proof of Fermat comes for free.
Hope they made you smile !