<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=364374" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Natural Numbers</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My numbers never ending<br>Stretching to infinity<br>But never ever reaching there<br>And always further off than me<br>Are those strange transfinite numbers<br>Whose names sound like some odd code<br>Like aleph and omega<br>And, as Mr Godel showed<br>We need these abstract artefacts<br>Even if imaginary<br>To prove all higher theorems<br>And ensure consistency<br>But there are further mysteries<br>That from my numbers do arise<br>Like never ending decimals<br>Irrational numbers in disguise<br>They too are quite invented<br>Just convenient in use<br>When my simple natural numbers<br>Do not serve to make a proof<br>Oh the mysteries of numbers! <br>Oh the madness of all that! <br>When what started off as counting<br>Becomes higher abstract maths.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Keig">David Keig</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=364374" data-title="The Natural Numbers de David Keig" data-description="My numbers never ending Stretching to infinity But never ever reaching there And always further off than me Are those strange transfinite numbers Whose names sound like some odd code Like aleph and omega And, as Mr Godel showed We need these abstr..."></div> </div> </div>

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