Season 2 Episode
- Season 2 The Monty Hall Problem
- Season 2 Simpson's Paradox
- Season 2 Non-Euclidean Geometries
- Season 2 Planar Tessellations
- Season 2 Graph Theory
- Season 2 Alicia Boole in the Land of Polytopes
- Season 2 The Kepler Conjecture, or How to Store Your Cannonballs
- Season 2 Chaos Theory or Order in Disorder
- Season 2 Kovaleskaya's Spinning Top or The Best Way to Spin
- Season 2 Entscheidungsproblem: The End of Mathematics?
Journey into Maths Country - Season 2 Episode 9 Kovaleskaya's Spinning Top or The Best Way to Spin
8.50 10 minutes 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...
