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Love Number 1

A universal language demands my affection.
While many see only anxieties,
O Maths, I see such beauties.
I see the Euler-Lagrange equation
and its suitability for any occasion.
I see Cantor and Gilbert sizing infinities
and inspiring confused obscenities,
and that's before any mention of differentiation!

Numberphiles have shaped our lives,
working from first principles,
magic with threes, fours and fives,
and our friend algebra; what abuse it survives.
It gives certainty, quantifies and multiplies,
O Maths, such pleasure from you derives. 

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