A Numbers Game

[Artifice]

He's...

a non-talkative toddler whose social ability stunts fast
so he was adorable... but also adorned with a dunce cap
at first had never had the drive to try and learn math
but when his brother died... he decided he’d do it Fermat
schooled himself so kid would have barely a summer
others had imaginary friends... he had imaginary numbers
for mom, it didn’t add up the way he tabled his times
but it wasn’t long ‘til in his division he was able to shine
he’d go to any length... come to think of it, any width
wasn’t an area of interest in which he wasn’t deadly with
only saw one kind of reality... and the truth was it
any problem to be solved, his knowledge got to the root of it
oddly enough he seemed to define the property square
but to even things out he’s on a plane with no oxygen there
and he had limits, like most he was trapped by some
but the only points he couldn’t argue against were axioms
eventually he’d enter university for he’s got the marks
earned a degree within weeks, test scores were off the charts
and every time his Penrose, his genius was talking
though at first most believed it was BS he was Hawking
by next December he was tenured and able to focus
before, never part of the equation, now it’s greatest exponent
faculty cosined that his mind was the best of the bunch
and he produced volumes of work, all with a depth untouched
the opposite of tribal... he saw the light without fire
and he wasn’t just one in a series... he was truly an outlier
ahead of the curve, and where most would get tangled
he’d go on tangents and simply approach it from different angles
had the formula for success where the rest were derivative
and his symptom made him asymptotic, in other words, limitless
variables defined, his designed solutions helped the people
so calculated his proofs are something that none will ever equal
yet he never aimed to change the world or gain a touch of fame
for he was a savant... and so to him, it was just a numbers game