Number theory

If one were to compile two little lists

of numbers that by simple rules abide,

the first that of all the odd primes consists

which when it is asked by 4 to divide

a remainder of 1 after it leave,

the second of those which together tied

in a sum as two squares one could conceive,

he would search for a difference in vain

for as far as he wants he would retrieve

always the same primes, again and again,

up to infinity, with no exception.

How can it be? This fact is too insane

to be coincidence, and the conception

of a proof dates back to three hundred years

ago, but this was the humble inception

of a research that led to what appears

nowadays as a vaster, richer field,

far more than what was seen behind the meres

of what XVII century revealed

to Pierre de Fermat, the mathematician

that still many stunning results did yield.

So often from an easy proposition,

investigating the remotest cause,

accumulating one good intuition

after another, without any pause,

generations of brilliant minds have found

under the former a deeper because,

a farther-reaching truth, a higher ground,

until vanquished all blindness strife by strife

human knowledge will even God astound.

This is mathematics, this is my life.