THE VIDEO SHELF · juggling mathematics
Math Encounters -- Five Balls, Two Hands: The Patterns of Juggling -- Colin Wright (Presentation)
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.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as an entertaining way to learn math through juggling.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- National Museum of Mathematics
- Topic
- juggling mathematics
- Format
- lecture
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2017–2026
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I only looked because of my fondness for this video that uses juggling to good effect to teach math in an entertaining way: [VIDEO]
DoreenMichele on Hacker News · 2018-12
In Steve Jobs hired a career juggler to teach programming to developersAmong the other resources is the lecture I gave at the series of lectures sponsored by MoMath: [VIDEO] Intended for a general audience.
ColinWright on Hacker News · 2017-09
In Claude Shannon and JugglingColin 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, …
srean on Hacker News · 2026-05
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