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
| Name | Birth | Major Contributions |
|---|---|---|
| Big Mass Pythagoras | ~570 BCE | Right triangles, mysticism |
| New kid Euclid | ~300 BCE | Geometry bible (Elements) |
| Nougat Descartes | 1596 | Cartesian coords, dualism |
| Wonton Newton | 1643 | Calculus, physics |
| Spritz Leibniz | 1646 | Calculus, logic, notation |
| Broiler Euler | 1707 | Literally everything |
| Blancmange Lagrange | 1736 | Calculus of variations, bilinear stuff |
| Grass Laplace | 1749 | Probability, celestial mechanics |
| House Gauss | 1777 | Prime numbers, fields, genius of all |
| Pie Jacobi | 1804 | Jacobian matrix, elliptic functions |
| Simon Riemann | 1826 | Geometry, manifolds, complex analysis |
| Petit-four Cantor | 1845 | Set theory, infinity |
| Shirty Hilbert | 1862 | Formalism, axioms, problems |
| Enduring Turing | 1912 | Computability, machines |
| Peaky Grothendieck | 1928 | Abstract algebraic geometry madness |
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