The Mathematics of Juggling [Paperback]

As a juggler the author likes to finish his performances with a stunt that combines props and techniques from a variety of juggling disciplines. Imagine him idling on a giraffe unicycle, while balancing a spinning basketball on a mouth stick, and toss-juggling a sword, a toilet plunger, and a rubber chicken. As a mathematician he is also interested in the treasure trove of beautiful mathematics used to model the different activities in a juggler's repertoire. In this book he provides an intellectually stimulating collection of mostly self-contained mathematical essays that introduce the reader to many elegant results and techniques from a wide range of mathematical disciplines such as combinatorics, graph theory, knot theory, mechanics, differential equations, control theory, and robotics. The Mathematics of Juggling is the first comprehensive account summarizing and expanding the results in the literature on juggling tricks and skills, as well as the mathematics behind these tricks and skills. Anybody who is not put off by the word mathematics in the title of this book should have a good time reading it.The author?captures a?treasure trove of?mathematics used to model the different activities in a juggler's repertoire. He provides a?stimulating collection of mostly self-contained mathematical essays about?a wide range of disciplines like?combinatorics, graph theory, knot theory, mechanics, differential equations, control theory, and robotics.?Anybody who is not put off by the word mathematics in the title of this book should have a good time reading it.Learn to juggle numbers! This book is the first comprehensive account of the mathematical techniques and results used in the modelling of juggling patterns. This includes all known and many new results about juggling sequences and matrices, the mathematical skeletons of juggling patterns.Many useful and entertaining tips and tricks spice up the mathematical menu presented in this book. There are detailed deslS(