Mathematics and Humor: A Study of the Logic of Humor
John Allen Paulos cleverly scrutinizes the mathematical structures of jokes, puns, paradoxes, spoonerisms, riddles, and other forms of humor, drawing examples from such sources as Rabelais, Shakespeare, James Beattie, Rene Thom, Lewis Carroll, Arthur Koestler, W.C. Fields, and Woody Allen.
John Allen Paulos cleverly scrutinizes the mathematical structures of jokes, puns, paradoxes, spoonerisms, riddles, and other forms of humor, drawing examples from such sources as Rabelais, Shakespeare, James Beattie, Rene Thom, Lewis Carroll, Arthur Koestler, W.C. Fields, and Woody Allen.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780226650258 (0226650251)
Publish date: November 15th 1982
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Pages no: 124
Edition language: English
not as funny as i imagined it. sometimes even dull
I'm moving on. Call this read. Maybe nobody will notice that it isn't.But it has made me discuss humour with people and I've been given some great ideas along the way. And I would like to preserve bits and pieces here.My mother said that when we were little we were really funny but that other kids a...
I've always felt that one of the really big philosophical questions concerns the nature of humour. What is humour? What purpose, if any, does it serve? Why are some things funny, and others not? I've thought about this stuff, on and off, for ages. The other day, I was poking around on Google and stu...
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