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Episode Details: Kovaleskaya's Spinning Top or The Best Way to Spin
Kovaleskaya's Spinning Top or The Best Way to Spin
Series: Journey into Maths Country
Season: Season 2
Episode Number: 9
Air Date:
Duration: 10 min
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...
Cast and Guests
Denis van Waerebeke
Director