Clement Clarke Moore Poet & Mathematician Clement Clarke Moore was an American poet and educator.  He was educated at Columbia College. Moore had a lifelong interest in church matters. He was the professor of Oriental and Greek literature at the General Theological Seminary from 1821 to 1850. The seminary was built on the land that he donated. Moore is best known for his poem beginning, "'Twas the night before Christmas," although it has been attributed to other writers, it is most commonly associated with Moore. Moore allegedly wrote it for his children in 1822 titling it "A Visit from Saint Nicholas". It was first published anonymously in the Troy (New York) Sentinel in 1823. His Compendious Lexicon of the Hebrew Language was published in 1809, but his fame came from a ballad that he wrote in 1822 for his two daughters, Margaret and Charity, and that was anonymously published a year later. Moore can be specified as a poet and a mathematician. Mathematics can be defined as the study of relationships among quantities, magnitudes, and properties and of logical operations by which unknown quantities, magnitudes, and properties may be deduced. Toward the middle of the 19th century, however, mathematics came to be regarded increasingly as the science of relations, or as the science that draws necessary conclusions. Logic can be defined as the science dealing with the principles of valid reasoning and argument. The study of logic is the effort to determine the conditions under which one is justified in passing from given statements, premises, to a conclusion that is claimed to follow from them. Mathematics can not exist without logic. Clement Clarke Moore used imaginative literary expression that makes its effect by the sound and the imagery of logic. Poetry is written on the basis of logic, therefore; poetry and math go hand in hand. How can one write anything without using logical explanation? It is not possible. The term absolute can be used to express whatever is in any way dependent on or limited by anything else. The German philosopher G. W. F. Hegel regarded the Absolute as a spiritual process that realizes itself through rationality alone, because only through the use of logic can reality be recognized. The American version of the Santa Claus figure received its inspiration and its name from the Dutch legend of Sinter Klaas, brought by settlers to New York in the 17th century. His Dutch-American Saint Nick achieved his fully Americanized form in 1823 in the poem A Visit From Saint Nicholas-more commonly known as The Night Before Christmas-by Clement Clarke Moore. Moore included such details as the names of the reindeer; Santa Claus's laughs, winks, and nods; and the method by which Saint Nicholas, referred to as an elf, returns up the chimney.