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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538518" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Mathematician in Love</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A mathematician fell madly in love <br>With a lady, young, handsome, and charming: <br>By angles and ratios harmonic he strove <br>Her curves and proportions all faultless to prove. <br>As he scrawled hieroglyphics alarming. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>II. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He measured with care, from the ends of a base, <br>The arcs which her features subtended: <br>Then he framed transcendental equations, to trace <br>The flowing outlines of her figure and face, <br>And thought the result very splendid. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>III. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He studied (since music has charms for the fair) <br>The theory of fiddles and whistles, --<br>Then composed, by acoustic equations, an air, <br>Which, when 'twas performed, made the lady's long hair <br>Stand on end, like a porcupine's bristles. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>IV. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The lady loved dancing: -- he therefore applied, <br>To the polka and waltz, an equation; <br>But when to rotate on his axis he tried, <br>His centre of gravity swayed to one side, <br>And he fell, by the earth's gravitation. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>V. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">No doubts of the fate of his suit made him pause, <br>For he proved, to his own satisfaction, <br>That the fair one returned his affection; -- "because, <br>"As every one knows, by mechanical laws, <br>"Re-action is equal to action." </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>VI. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Let x denote beauty, -- y, manners well-bred, --<br>"z, Fortune, -- (this last is essential), --<br>"Let L stand for love" -- our philosopher said, --<br>"Then L is a function of x, y, and z,<br>"Of the kind which is known as potential." </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>VII. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Now integrate L with respect to d t,<br>"(t Standing for time and persuasion); <br>"Then, between proper limits, 'tis easy to see, <br>"The definite integral Marriage must be: --<br>"(A very concise demonstration)." </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>VIII. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Said he -- "If the wandering course of the moon <br>"By Algebra can be predicted, <br>"The female affections must yield to it soon" --<br>-- But the lady ran off with a dashing dragoon, <br>And left him amazed and afflicted.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+John+Macquorn+Rankine">William John Macquorn Rankine</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=538518" data-title="The Mathematician in Love de William John Macquorn Rankine" data-description="I. A mathematician fell madly in love With a lady, young, handsome, and charming: By angles and ratios harmonic he strove Her curves and proportions all faultless to prove. As he scrawled hieroglyphics alarming. II. He measured with car..."></div> </div> </div>
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