Journey into Maths Country - Season 2 Episode 9 Kovaleskaya's Spinning Top or The Best Way to Spin
How do you model the movement of a potato in space? Many a mathematician has struggled with this question.
At the end of the 19th century, mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaya finally obtained an important result for determining the motion of a solid around a fixed point, thanks to a very special spinning top. A little expedition to the heart of integrable systems, even if it's a bit dizzying...
First Air Date: Sep 23, 2021
Last Air date: Oct 10, 2023
Season: 2 Season
Episode: 20 Episode
Runtime: 10 minutes
IMDb: 8.50/10 by 2.00 users
Popularity: 2.933
Language: French
Episode
The Monty Hall Problem
Simpson's Paradox
Non-Euclidean Geometries
Planar Tessellations
Graph Theory
Alicia Boole in the Land of Polytopes
The Kepler Conjecture, or How to Store Your Cannonballs
Chaos Theory or Order in Disorder
Kovaleskaya's Spinning Top or The Best Way to Spin
Entscheidungsproblem: The End of Mathematics?
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