Limerick: The Lemma
A limerick about a scholar named Emma who has to prove a lemma before the theorem.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017-03-15-limericks-for-mathematicians--limerick-the-lemma/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
"There once was a scholar named Emma / who faced a most pressing dilemma: / as an opening move / she needed to prove / not the theorem itself, but a lemma." "Hmm…"