Comedy

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The word comedy here is used to refer to joke. The reason we included here it to show a structure of recursive definition. See the following definition on anti-joke:

Definition of Anti-joke

Anti-joke is mathematics, according to Joseph Maher[1]:

Math is the reverse of comedy.[2] The anti-joke. We'll tell you the punchline first, then laboriously explain to you why it was the right punchline.

References

  1. Tai-Danae Bradley, in her Blog on The Yoneda Perspective, she referenced Maher's statement, last accessed: August 19, 2021
  2. So a mathematician is a cocomedian? (What does that make a comathematician?)

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