alt Hacker NewsI have an Erdös number of 2[] via a paper, co-authored with Ron Graham, on the topic of the maths of juggling.
AMA.
[] I also have an Erdös number of the second type of 3, but that doesn't involve Ron Graham or juggling.
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ColinWright • 11/09/2024
I was tired last night ... it has been a long week, so I forgot that the single asterisk is used for italics ... hence the screwed up formatting.
It's not too late to edit it, so here is the comment as intended:
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I have an Erdös number of 2[+] via a paper, co-authored with Ron Graham, on the topic of the maths of juggling.
AMA.
[+] I also have an Erdös number of the second type of 3, but that doesn't involve Ron Graham or juggling.
Just want to say, I recognised your name immediately when I saw it. Saw a talk you gave at the Institute of Education in Bloomsbury back in 2010 when I was a teenager and it is still, to this day, one of the best popular mathematics talks I've ever witnessed (obviously helped by the immense juggling talent).
I've gone on to do a PhD in Physics and write lots of popular science for some big YouTube channels (SciShow, Veritasium) and among some of the more long term influences on my career I definitely count your talk as one of them!