Mathematician fruit salad

Pythagoras has a hefty mass
Said the new kid, high-on-glue kid, Euclid
I am thinking of nougat said Descartes
Newton poured his wonton in Liebniz’s spritz
Euler Euler tucked into his broiler
But where’s the blancmange said Lagrange
It’s probably fallen in the grass said Laplace
Gauss, not in da house, was out shooting grouse
Jacob Jacobi had a thing for apple pie
Riemann the simple simon loved only blackbirds in his pie
Not twenty four, a petit-four said Cantor
I’ve got Camembert on my shirt said Hilbert
Turing is still enduring his apple’s bitter taste
Grothendieck had a peak, his meringue was on plan
And now here’s you and me making no sense of this mystery

Cast

In order of appearance

NameBirthMajor Contributions
Big Mass Pythagoras~570 BCERight triangles, mysticism
New kid Euclid~300 BCEGeometry bible (Elements)
Nougat Descartes1596Cartesian coords, dualism
Wonton Newton1643Calculus, physics
Spritz Leibniz1646Calculus, logic, notation
Broiler Euler1707Literally everything
Blancmange Lagrange1736Calculus of variations, bilinear stuff
Grass Laplace1749Probability, celestial mechanics
House Gauss1777Prime numbers, fields, genius of all
Pie Jacobi1804Jacobian matrix, elliptic functions
Simon Riemann1826Geometry, manifolds, complex analysis
Petit-four Cantor1845Set theory, infinity
Shirty Hilbert1862Formalism, axioms, problems
Enduring Turing1912Computability, machines
Peaky Grothendieck1928Abstract algebraic geometry madness

Leave a comment

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.