fractal fracking

If I were to describe maths, it would be as a fractal.
You start so simple, so real, so pure
Even 2-year-old me could do it without much thought
But look closer, and in there lies beauty
Mathematical marvels and truths so juicy
An endless world of fascination
Complex beyond imagination
Perfectly functioning
Through generations of discovery
The infrastructure of all that exists
Lying under your fingertips
Deeper you dive, specialising more
Falling in love with calculus lore
Quaternions! Tensors! Parallelopipeds!
Name an obscure field and we’ll find it
Geometricise your algebra into algebraic geometry
And lose yourself in quantum topology
The world of maths is n-dimensional
Where n is an integer infinitely extensible
Axioms, conjectures, identities and lemmas
Eternal inequalities with S-I+G-N errors
Here we don’t approximate pi as 3
And exp(x) is its own integral + c
Screw it, *convolutes your convolutions*
This area is too small to fit these solutions
So in this year’s maths society, now it’s our turn
To share all the stuff and guff that we’ve learnt
And lose ourselves til we go insane
In the uncountable infinity of the mathematical domain.

(28 May 2024)