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The Mathematics of Juggling
Special Events| Speaker: | Prof. Allen Knutson, Cornell University |
| Related Webpage: | https://math.cornell.edu/allen-knutson |
| Location: | 1147 MSB |
| Start time: | Tue, Nov 30 2021, 3:10PM |
Around 1985 three groups of jugglers independently came up with the same way of mathematically describing juggling patterns. I'll explain this "siteswap" system, connect it to permutations and to linear algebra, and demonstrate many examples.