The Mathematics of Juggling
by Burkard Polster
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Author: Burkard PolsterEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-10-31
ISBN: 0387955135
Number of pages: 248
Publisher: Springer
Accessories:
- The Geometer's Sketchpad: Dynamic Geometry Software for Exploring Mathematics
- Trigonometry
- The IMO Compendium: A Collection of Problems Suggested for The International Mathematical Olympiads: 1959-2004 (Problem Books in Mathematics)
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Book Review: Claude Shannon worked on juggling!
Summary: 4 Stars
Polster manages to take the innocuous pastime of juggling and segue from it into number theory. The movement of balls is shown to map naturally into the concepts of finite state graphs. Bringing in ideas of permutations. And introducing juggling matrices!
Plus, he points out that the founder of Information Theory, Claude Shannon, was also interested in the theory of juggling. Several crucial juggling theorems were discovered by Shannon and are named after him. For readers familiar with Shannon in computing, the book gives a look at relatively little known research by him.
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