Paul Erdős double-dactyl

[marnanel]

(vague sketch, ideas welcome)

Mathemamagical
Dr Paul Erdős has
Changed mathematics in
Numberless ways.
Won't go a month without
Dextroamphetamines:
Claims it would set the world
Back thirty days.

Comments

[simont]

Perhaps 'numerous' might be nicer than 'numberless'? It's less emphatic, but on the other hand hints at an extra meaning 'to do with numbers' along with the obvious 'many'.

If I were writing this I think I'd feel it wasn't complete without some reference to Erdős numbers and/or the collaboration graph in general, but then, that would probably require an entirely different poem :-)

[simont]

... along the lines of, perhaps,

Bookishly-lookishly
Dr Paul Erdős solved
many hard problems and
dreamed up lots more.

Many now prize a low
graph-theoretical
distance to him – but it's
hard to keep score.