Periodically Lucy will sing some of her Dad's songs in concert. The lyrics to some of them are below. The Alphabet Song is coming soon!

A Song About Pi (Irving Kaplansky)
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In all the bygone ages
Philosophers and sages
Have meditated on the circle's mysteries.
From Euclid to Pythag'ras,
From Gauss to Anaxag'ras,
Their thoughts have filled the libr'ies bulging histories.
And yet there was elation
Throughout the whole Greek nation
When Archimedes made his mighty computation!
He said:

3-1-4-1 Oh my,
Here's a song to sing about pi.
Not a sigma or a mu,
But a well known Greek letter, too.
You can have your alphas and the phi betas
And an omega for a friend,
But thats just what a circle doesn't have
A beginnng or an end
3-1-4-1-5-9 is a ratio we don't define;
Two pi times radii
Gives circumf'rence you can rely;
If you square the radius times the pi
You will get the circle's space.
Here's a song about pi,
Fit for a mathematician's embrace!

On An Asteroid With You
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Where shall we go for a honeymoon
The Taj Mahal
Paten Place
They're fine but if you really want a great place to spoon
You aughta try outerspace

Between Mars and Jupiter it's not a void
There's real estate that you can buy
A cottage for two,
on an Asteroid,
it's the best blue chip in the sky

When we first get a chance for interstellar romance
on a rocketship thats built for two
We'll go sailing through space
from this tired old place
to an asteroid with you

As our fuel tanks blast,
we'll forget all the past
til we hit escape velocity
and then the planet will yeild it's gravitational field
we'll be in a flight thats free

we'll be in a state of possessing no weight
at least thats how the theory goes
and you won't need any brand bew clothes
cuz you'll look so cute in your little spacesuit

we'll go sailing by mars
past a curtain of stars
and we'll postipitch a little woo
As our fuel gives out
we'll ride, we'll shout
On an asteroid, on an asteroid
on an asteroid with you

That's Mathematics
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The fun when two parallels meet
Or a group with an action discrete
Or the thrill when some decimals repeat,
That's mathematics.
A nova, incredibly bright,
Or the speed of a photon of light,
Andrew Wiles, proving Fermat was right,
That's mathematics.
The odds of a bet when you're rolling two dice,
The marvelous fact that four colors suffice,
Slick software setting a price,
And the square on the hypotenuse
Will bring us a lot o' news.
In genes a double helix we see
And we cheer when an algebra's free
And in fact life's a big PDE.
We'll be on the go
When we learn to grow with mathematics.

With Lagrange everyone of us swears
That all things are the sums of four squares,
Like as not, three will do but who cares.
That's mathematics.
Sporadic groups are the ultimate bricks,
Finding them took some devilish tricks,
Now we know--there are just 26.
That's mathematics.
The function of Riemann is looking just fine,
It may have its zeros on one special line.
This thought is yours and it's mine.
We may soon learn about it
But somehow I doubt it.
Don't waste time asking whether or why
A good theorem is worth a real try,
Go ahead--prove transcendence of pi;
Of science the queen
We're all of us keen on mathematics.