Category Archives: Sport

Another way to Revolutionize Football

Posted on June 9, 2011 by

The angle of Victoria Beckham’s hat (here in a picture from a recent wedding) is closely related to our previous post on football One of the highlights of the recent Newton Institute  conference on discrete harmonic analysis was a football … Continue reading →

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The Intermediate Value Theorem Applied to Football

Posted on April 20, 2009 by

My idea (in my teenage years) of how to become a professional basketball player was a bit desperate. To cover for my height and my athletic (dis)abilities, I would simply practice how to shoot perfectly from every corner of the … Continue reading →

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A Deeper Look at Basketball

Posted on March 21, 2009 by

This basketball is combinatorially equivalent to? Answer

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1:0 to Italy: Michal Linial

Posted on December 10, 2008 by

Coming back from Hinxton, the most exciting genome center in the world and the most boring place after 5pm… At 5:30, a shuttle bus takes all the ‘workers’ to the big city – to Cambridge. The shuttle bus dropped us … Continue reading →

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