I Am a Mathematician

I am a mathematician
And how much do I love you?
Well, let me count the ways …

You are to Pi as the number three followed by point one four
You are the parabolic cylinder I want to fill up even more
You are the catastrophe theory that would happen if you left
You are the continuity principle that gives me my moral heft
You have the elliptic cones I know I can’t do one bit without
You were the random number I love to take out and flout 
You are the rank test I can use to equate against all of the others
(I’m sorry if you’ve been an error-correcting code used against my mother)
You are the absorption law that saved me from being a great big zero 
You are my quadratic equation, and one that will always equal hero!