A Love Poem for Math

Christina Sng for Maths@Singapore

The love I’ve had for math

Since I was a child

Has only grown

Over the years.

Adding makes more,

Subtracting takes away,

Multiplication vastly increases,

Division vastly decreases.

Algebra uses alphabets to calculate.

Geometry uses shapes.

Matrices use arrays of numbers,

Graphs use lines and curves.

Word problems use text to explain.

You still have to turn it into numbers

To solve it. This is as true to real life

As mathematics gets.

There’s a comfort in solving math.

They’re one of the few things in life

We have control over.

They are problems we can solve—

Salve for the difficult days we face.

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Thanks to Enric Moreu @enric_moreu for making this photo available freely on Unsplash

Author

Christina Sng is a three-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author that finds peace in mathematics and the macabre. Her poetry, fiction, essays, and art appear in Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, Interstellar Flight Magazine, and The Washington Post. Aside from having over 20 years of experience in the field of writing, she also has an extensive background in UX design and IT. Her educational background combined with her interests and neverending curiosity about the world is the perfect recipe to have her tackle fascinating topics about math. She is able to approach the highly logical field of mathematics through an extremely creative lens that sheds new light and exposes new avenues on how it impacts our lives.