Enjoy the Numbers

(November 27, 2009; sing it to the tune of Enjoy the Silence by Depeche Mode)

Calculation's
Like meditation,
Finding eternity
Inside an integral.

Anticipation
Of derivation -
Oh, how can you not
Love mathematics, girl?

All you've ever counted,
All you've ever added,
Sum more than their parts:
Numbers are nature's own calculator,
They stretch out uncountably far...

Scribbling in sand
With thoughtful hands,
Hippasus was convinced:
Two's irrational.

By contradiction
Showed fraction was fiction
And shared a complex truth.
This proof's non-trivial.

The distance we've measured,
The music we've treasured,
Are gifts of this art:
Numbers are nature's own calculator,
They stretch out uncountably far...