Letter: Catechismic chaos

Published 22 December 2010

Did nature in creation spurt with math as part of One,
Or are numbers a religion making all obey to Sum?

Whatever be the truth of it I never feel less grave,
Than when Nature to The Numbers, refuses to behave.

Anna Tambour, Australia

Issue no. 2792 published 25 December 2010

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