Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!mcnc!ncsu!uvacs!gmf From: gmf@uvacs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: New topological limericks Message-ID: <1417@uvacs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 3-Aug-84 18:45:32 EDT Article-I.D.: uvacs.1417 Posted: Fri Aug 3 18:45:32 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 5-Aug-84 07:56:49 EDT Lines: 39 In the light of the topological limericks someone posted, I have yielded again to temptation: A topologist quite algebraic Computed the groups of Passaic. The streets were so looped It made him quite pooped And gave him a nervous headaic. Topologist L.E.J.Brouwer Said, flouting the party in power: "I foster sedition With my intuition, I'm a p or not p disavower," And he added with great intrepidity, "In view of the masked invalidity, You'll come to regret Of an infinite set Its treacherous tertium non-quiddity." A topologist named R.L.Moore Tried keeping topology pure. Point sets in the plane Were his special domain Though he looked into 3-space, I'm sure. Georg Cantor threw out middle thirds Til he broke down and uttered these words: "I may go insane Because there remain These absurdly uncountable surds." Gordon Fisher