Description

• Title:
  Laughing at Numbers: Evidence for Numeracy in the “Philogelos”
• Creator:
  Brodersen , Kai
• Description:
  Ancient numeracy is reasonably well attested in scientific sources. However, any study of applied mathematics faces the problem of a dearth of evidence. The paper suggests that the jokes collected in the “Philogelos” provide such evidence, and discusses the failings which are referred to in these jokes.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Date:
  2020.12.30
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Artykuł naukowy
• Language:
  English;
  eng
• Source:
  Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae et Latinae; Vol. 30 (2020); 123–133;
  Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae et Latinae; Tom 30 (2020); 123–133;
  2720-2305;
  0302-7384
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/sppgl/article/view/26087/23803
• Subject:
  numeracy;
  education;
  applied mathematics;
  Philogelos;
  jokes
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/sppgl/article/view/26087
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
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  seek permission
• Type:
  other