As I walk through the valley of the shadow of math
I take a look at my life and realize there's none left
'Cause I've been deriving and proving so long that
Even my advisor thinks that my mind is gone
But I ain't never proved a theorem that didn't deserve it
He be treated like a lemma, you know that's unheard of
You better watch how I'm talking, and where I'm walking
Or you and your homies might get covered in chalk
I really ain't that smooth, but I gotta hope
You convolute me with a function so I get a slope, fool
I'm the kind T.A. the little majors wanna be like
In my office late at night, grading papers that ain't right
Been spendin' most our lives in a mathematics paradise
Prove theorems once or twice in a mathematics paradise
Big stipend pays the price in a mathematics paradise
A bigger one would sure be nice in a mathematics paradise
My thesis situation has got me pacin'
Operator algebras on a smooth manifold
So I gotta be down with d-z-bar
Anti-involution product got me seein' stars
I'm a educated fool, K-theory on my mind
Piece of chalk in my hand and a gleam in my eye
I'm a fifth-year grad, so don't keep me longer
And my thesis is down, it can't get any stronger, fool
Defense ain't nothin' but a quarter away
A post-doc at M. I. T.? What can I say?
I'm twenty-three now, but when I live to be thirty-four
A Fields Medal, maybe? I don't know
Tell me why is pi defined to be
3.141592653?
Been spendin' most our lives in a mathematics paradise
Prove lemmas once or twice in a mathematics paradise
Big stipend pays the price in a mathematics paradise
A bigger one would sure be nice in a mathematics paradise
Power of the series, series of the power
Every morning missing shower after shower
Everybody's running, but half of them ain't lookin' what's going on in the cla**room
'Cause they're too busy sniffin'
They say I got to learn, but they have no time to teach me
If I can't understand that, how can they reach me?
I guess they can't, I guess I won't
I guess I'm stuck. That's why I know my life is out of luck, fool
Been spendin' most our lives in a mathematics paradise
Prove theorems once or twice in a mathematics paradise
Sometimes we prove them thrice in a mathematics paradise
And our advisors give advice in a mathematics paradise
Tell me why are we so blind to state
E is 2.71828?
Tell me why is pi defined to be
3.141592653?
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Been spendin' most our lives in a mathematics paradise
Prove theorems once or twice in a mathematics paradise
A conjecture would suffice in a mathematics paradise
We don't got no social lives in a mathematics paradise