# The math behind basketball's wildest moves

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2015
- Speaker: Rajiv Maheswaran
- Year: 2015
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Mathematics
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/rajiv_maheswaran_the_math_behind_basketball_s_wildest_moves)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

## Lectures

1. [The math behind basketball's wildest moves](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/rajiv_maheswaran_the_math_behind_basketball_s_wildest_moves/a78244066d43), 12 min (TED's player)