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!

That's very kind ... thank you ... and excellent that you are carrying on the task of making science accessible.

Keep it up!

PS: I see from the data you've put on the site formerly (and to be honest, still) known as Twitter that I pass reasonably close to you sporadically and irregularly, but every month or so on average. If you'd like to meet for coffee[0] and cake at some point, my contact details are in my profile.

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.