Why is the kovalevskaya top special and what does it look like?

Subject: Why is the kovalevskaya top special and what does it look like?

Date: Sun Dec 17 18:22:45 2006
Posted by Jenna Leigh
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Area of science: Physics
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I am researching Sonya Kovalevskaya(Kovalevsky) for an assingment in my 
advaced algerbra class, but all the google and other results I get on her work 
are a little over my head (ie. partial differential equations!). So I am just 
trying to better understand her work on the rotation of a solid body about a 
fixed point and there isn't much out there about it.

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