"The Mathematician in Love"

While working on my TPE project, I came across an article in the New Science magazine- 24 December 2011, issue # 2844 named "Rhyme and Reason: The Victorian poet scientists" by Paul Collins. The article speaks of many different poems and poets but the poem I found amusing was "The Mathematician in Love" by William J.M. Rankine. Some say it was written for pleasure. Others speculate that Rankine, a Scottish physicist that contributed to thermodynamics, wrote it to show " the absurdity of reducing all knowledge to science and mathematical equations " ( How Do You Know You're Not Wrong? Responding To Objections That Leave Christians Speechless by Paul Copan, p.74).

Here is the poem : http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21266-the-mathematician-in-love.html