Maths Love Song: You + Me (with Mathematical Explanation)

Song written and performed by Tom Rocks Maths intern Siddiq Islam - a second year undergraduate Maths student ‪@oxforduniversity‬. Explanation by Oxford Mathematician Dr Tom Crawford. FULL LYRICS BELOW.

You + me
Is all I’d ever dream to be
You see
You’re my -7x^(-8) + 3
And equally
I’m your x^(-7) + 3x + c
Woah

My love’s exponential
Its domain is boundless and it reaches into infinity
While at first incremental
The rate at which it’s growing is increasing gradually
They say I resemble
e^(iπ), beautiful in all I do
But I am just helpless
‘Cos I still feel like a -1 without

You + Me
Is all I’d ever dream to be
You see
You’re my -7x^(-8) + 3
And equally
I’m your x^(-7) + 3x + c
Woah

Your heart’s logarithmic
It inverts every positive thing that my love might try
It’s just tough luck, isn’t it?
My love will only touch your heart in an imaginary place like
I could try to envisage
Any other number from infinity to 1 or 2
And their sum you’d outdistance
While I’d still feel like a -1/12 without

You + Me
Is all I’d ever dream to be
You see,
You’re my -7x^(-8) + 3
And equally
I’m your x^(-7) + 3x + c
Can we
Be we
Instead of just you + me?

We are not defined when x is 0
And there are no real solutions here
My favourite number’s 2
But nothing’s really greater than you

The show was first performed at IF Oxford - the Oxford Science and Ideas Festival. Thanks to the London Mathematical Society (LMS) for financial support for the event.

Produced by Dr Tom Crawford at the University of Oxford. Tom is an Early-Career Teaching and Outreach Fellow in Mathematics at St Edmund Hall: https://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/people/tom-c...

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