The Math Behind Basketball's Wildest Moves | Rajiv Maheswaran | TED Talks

The Math Behind Basketball's Wildest Moves | Rajiv Maheswaran | TED Talks



Basketball is a fast-moving game of improvisation, contact and, ahem, spatio-temporal pattern recognition. Rajiv Maheswaran and his colleagues are analyzing the movements behind the key plays of the game, to help coaches and players combine intuition with new data. Bonus: What they’re learning could help us understand how humans move everywhere.

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