As I did the 2015 A-to-Z I learned how to do them in a way that feels me. In writing about the meaning of Proper, I found an important part of my voice. That’s the part which began with a corny mathematician’s joke. It also shows something I have forgotten how to do: it explains the whole thing, even with a joke to warm things up, in maybe 500 words. Well, I was publishing three A-to-Z essays a week back then; something had to go.
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Do you know any jokes which actually explain mathematical ideas, Joseph?
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Oh, that’s a good question and I’ll have to think. There’s good ones in mathematical logic since so often a joke builds on a fallacy or an unintended implication.
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A nice explanation to be going on with!
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Kind of you; thanks.
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