terça-feira, agosto 26, 2008
That's mathematics!
Porque a matemática está em todo o lado, deixo-vos a letra de "That's mathematics", escrita em 1993, supostamente devido ao facto de Andrew Wiles ter demonstrado o conhecido Último Teorema de Fermat.
(Para os que não o conhecem, o Último Teorema de Fermat diz que, seja n um número inteiro, para n>2 não existem três números inteiros a, b e c que satisfaçam a condição a^n + b^n = c^n. Fermat escrevinhou, nas margens de um caderno, que tinha encontrado uma demonstração perfeita para este teorema mas que não tinha espaço suficiente para a escrever ali. Nunca se encontrou a solução de Fermat e especula-se que talvez ele nem sequer a tivesse encontrado!)
That's mathematics
Counting sheep
When you're trying to sleep,
Being fair
When there's something to share,
Being neat
When you're folding a sheet,
That's mathematics!
When a ball
Bounces off of a wall,
When you cook
From a recipe book,
When you know
How much money you owe,
That's mathematics!
How much gold can you hold in an elephant's ear?
When it's noon on the moon, then what time is it here?
If you could count for a year, would you get to infinity,
Or somewhere in that vicinity?
When you choose
How much postage to use,
When you know
What's the chance it will snow,
When you bet
And you end up in debt,
Oh try as you may,
You just can't get away
From mathematics!
Andrew Wiles gently smiles,
Does his thing, and voila!
Q.E.D., we agree,
And we all shout hurrah!
As he confirms what Fermat
Jotted down in that margin,
Which could've used some enlargin'.
Tap your feet,
Keepin' time to a beat,
Of a song
While you're singing along,
Harmonize
With the rest of the guys,
Yes, try as you may,
You just can't get away
From mathematics!
Não conhecia esta música, obrigado pela partilha.
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