Stephen Leacock answered this topic perfectly over a hundred years ago in Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy, chapter six, Education Made Agreeable or the Diversi

Stephen Leacock answered this topic perfectly over a hundred years ago in Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy, chapter six, Education Made Agreeable or the Diversions of a Professor. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4064/4064-h/4064-h.htm#link2H_4_0020 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4064/4064-h/4064-h.htm#link2... Minor excerpts to whet your appetite (but seriously, read it, it’s excellent humour): > In the first place I have compounded a blend of modern poetry and mathematics, which retains all the romance of the latter and loses none of the dry accuracy of the former. Here is an example: The poem of LORD ULLIN’S DAUGHTER expressed as A PROBLEM IN TRIGONOMETRY … —⁂— > Here, for example, you have Euclid writing in a perfectly prosaic way all in small type such an item as the following: > “A perpendicular is let fall on a line BC so as to bisect it at the point C etc., etc.,” just as if it were the most ordinary occurrence in the world. Every newspaper man will see at once that it ought to be set up thus: AWFUL CATASTROPHE PERPENDICULAR FALLS HEADLONG ON A GIVEN POINT The Line at C said to be completely bisected President of the Line makes Statement etc., etc., etc.