Poems: Math limericks | Scientific American
Infinity
I searched for the end of infinity
An activity of great affinity
I did a dry test
And I kept adding one
But I never really reached around
Topology
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A Möbius strip once gone
On a journey to unexplored places
But it took a bad turn
Only to learn
That it ended where it began
Fibonacci series
It starts with a couple of young rabbits
Who mate every month (it’s their habit!)
Two, three, five, eight, thirteen
A machine in motion
Fibonacci exclaims: “Now I have it!” »
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