Set in stone: equations “lower standard of graveyard”, say parish chiefs.
An English council has ordered a widow to pull up her mathematician husband’s gravestone. Why? Because it features a two-inch sudoku puzzle and a maths equation.
“Now it’s there I am standing my ground,” says widow Angela, “and the council even spelt his name wrong on the letter they sent me.” But parish penpushers in Farndon, Chester, say the stone sudoku “lowers the standard of the churchyard“.
Although I’m a literary man myself, I can believe that mathematicians and scientists can see poetry in equations. But when my own stone is being carved , there’ll be a limerick on it, not logic.
Sources: Daily Star, Chester Chronicle
