<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341216" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Hitting the Mathematical Wall</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(after Robert Frost) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Something there is that doesn't love the math, <br>That sends the frozen needles under skin, <br>That numbs the skull and stultifies the brain<br>Before the joy of math discovery begins<br>Comes sheer torment of quadratic functions-<br>And who can blame those poor souls that can't add<br>Two simple fractions or multiply<br>Signed numbers? -<br>For there is no reason they can't pass<br>Remedial math courses with a D<br>And join the mindless workforce<br>Of their peers, <br>Who care not for square roots or logs, <br>Nor volumes of some pyramids or spheres-<br>No, they want none of it<br>In their beer-filled dream, <br>In their dull and repetitious slumber, <br>Where there is no x, and no why-<br>No solution to their life's equation<br>Which drags itself each day until they die<br>And take this time a permanent vacation.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Something there is that doesn't love the math, <br>That wants all numbers and all symbols down, <br>And lonely is a math instructor's path-<br>Misunderstood and treated like a clown<br>By those who care not for what she says.<br>Gone is the beauty of geometry and space, <br>The golden ratio and isosceles triangles-<br>There is just this massive wall above her head, <br>Where ignorance prevails and knowledge's dead-<br>Where there are no more questions, <br>No more numbers, <br>There is just this nothingness, <br>Where there's nothing to be said, <br>Where all the search and all the discourse ends.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br> May 30,2009</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alexander+Shaumyan">Alexander Shaumyan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341216" data-title="Hitting the Mathematical Wall de Alexander Shaumyan" data-description="(after Robert Frost) Something there is that doesn't love the math, That sends the frozen needles under skin, That numbs the skull and stultifies the brain Before the joy of math discovery begins Comes sheer torment of quadratic functions- And..."></div> </div> </div>

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