Journey into Maths Country
Season 2 Episode 9 - Kovaleskaya's Spinning Top or The Best Way to Spin
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2021
Documentary
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...
Episodes in Season 2
1
The Monty Hall Problem
10 min
2
Simpson's Paradox
10 min
3
Non-Euclidean Geometries
10 min
4
Planar Tessellations
10 min
5
Graph Theory
10 min
6
Alicia Boole in the Land of Polytopes
10 min
7
The Kepler Conjecture, or How to Store Your Cannonballs
10 min
8
Chaos Theory or Order in Disorder
10 min
9
Kovaleskaya's Spinning Top or The Best Way to Spin
10 min
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Entscheidungsproblem: The End of Mathematics?
10 min
