Journey into Maths Country Season 2 Episode 9 Kovaleskaya's Spinning Top or The Best Way to Spin 2023
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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...
- Released: 2023-10-10
- Runtime: 10 minutes
- Genre: Documentary
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