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" Mathematics and humor / "
John Allen Paulos
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BL
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581711
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b410930
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| Main Entry
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Paulos, John Allen
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| Title & Author
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Mathematics and humor /\ John Allen Paulos
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| Edition Statement
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Paperback ed
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, 1982, c1980
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116 p. :: ill. ;; 21 cm
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0226650251
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: 9780226650258
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Include bibliographical references (p. 109-112)
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| Abstract
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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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Wit and humor-- Philosophy
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