Why I Believe In Miracles? Poem by Paul Hartal

Why I Believe in Miracles?

Well, as I see it, miracles must happen
because they are statistical probabilities.
Besides, more supporting evidence
for the existence of miracles comes from
the Queen of Sciences, beyond statistics.
It involves a profoundly perplexing, enigmatic
and beautiful mathematical relationship,
an algebraic entity,
known as the Euler formula.

This equation unites
five fundamental mathematical symbols:
1.the Euler number e,2.718;
2. the imaginary number i,
which is the square root of minus one;
3. pi,3.1415;
4. the integer 1; and
5. the number zero.

Now, according to the Euler formula,
if you raise e to the pi times i
and then add one, the result is nought, zero.

But how can this be possible?
How can nothing be born out of something?

Benjamin Peirce, Professor of Mathemaics
at Harvard University in the 19th century,
was so shocked by the Euler equation
that he told his students this:
'Gentlemen! It is absolutely paradoxical,
we cannot understand it, and we don't know
what it means, but we have proved it,
and therefore we know, it must be the truth.'