Math Encounters -- Five Balls, Two Hands: The Patterns of Juggling -- Colin Wright (Presentation)
National Museum of Mathematics3 HN recommenders · recommended in 3 months, 2017-2026
33K views · 14 years ago · lecture · evergreen
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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4 comments from Hacker News
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 ▶ this 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.
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). ▶ this 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 )
I only looked because of my fondness for this video that uses juggling to good effect to teach math in an entertaining way: ▶ this video
Among the other resources is the lecture I gave at the series of lectures sponsored by MoMath: ▶ this video Intended for a general audience.