11-25-2022, 10:30 AM
Group Theory
Evariste Galois
did plenty by twenty,
his Group Theory
proving that the quintic
was insoluble, like oil in water.
Meanwhile, the Atlantic -
in an island therein -
the precocious daughter
of dear Lord Byron
was learning her times tables
dearer than Aesop's fables,
in time to help deliver
an analytical engine
that has in our time
loos'd our world from the savage
grip of boomer subculture,
freed us from the vultures -
log table, slide rule,
and the unwatchable films
of Peter O'Toole.
Evariste Galois
did plenty by twenty,
his Group Theory
proving that the quintic
was insoluble, like oil in water.
Meanwhile, the Atlantic -
in an island therein -
the precocious daughter
of dear Lord Byron
was learning her times tables
dearer than Aesop's fables,
in time to help deliver
an analytical engine
that has in our time
loos'd our world from the savage
grip of boomer subculture,
freed us from the vultures -
log table, slide rule,
and the unwatchable films
of Peter O'Toole.