Math Encounters -- Five Balls, Two Hands: The Patterns of Juggling -- Colin Wright (Presentation)

National Museum of Mathematics3 HN recommenders · 2017–2026
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Mathematician Colin Wright demonstrates juggling and explains the mathematics of juggling patterns, including notation that led to new throwing patterns. It is a public presentation at the Museum of Mathematics aimed at a general audience.

HN recommends it as an entertaining way to learn math through juggling.

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@ColinWright2017 · in “Claude Shannon and Juggling”

Among the other resources is the lecture I gave at the series of lectures sponsored by MoMath: [VIDEO] Intended for a general audience.

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@DoreenMichele2018 · in “Steve Jobs hired a career juggler to teach programming to developers”

I only looked because of my fondness for this video that uses juggling to good effect to teach math in an entertaining way: [VIDEO]

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@DoreenMichele2020 · in “John Conway has died”

HN now gets about 5 million visitors a month. In case it needs to be said for some of those folks, the OP -- ColinWright -- is also rather well connected from what I gather and part of that circle (of recreational mathematics, etc). [VIDEO] So I imagine the mods granted the black bar in part on the strength of who posted it. They don't do so lightly and have been known to put a hold on threads in the past to wait for confirmation. They haven't chosen to do so this time and there is likely a compelling reason for that. (Example of HN waiting for confirmation: [LINK] ; [LINK] )

@srean2026 · in “Braids, Hacktastic, and Rock Climbing”

Colin Wright has a fun video on braids formed by the trajectory of juggled balls. Can't seem to find it. Hope he sees this and posts. Found it [VIDEO] On a different note do anyone of you know of a way to browse, College Mathematics, American Mathematical Monthly, Mathematics Gazette, Mathematical Intelligencer ... back issues by volume ? Without an institutional login that is. Scimag was one way. Seems to have disappeared since the Ukraine war.

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