How to Fix a Wobbly Table Using Math

We ’ve all been sit drink a beer only to realize that the mesa shimmy irritatingly . But while a piece of folded paper can solve the problem for a few second , there is a better solution — and it uses some simple math .

Matthias Kreck from the University of Bonn explains in this video how simply turning the table a little , clockwise or anticlockwise about where it sits , will solve the problem . Do n’t believe it ? Kreck provides the proof too . Still do n’t believe it ? try on it out next time you ’re in a bar .

It may not the most sociable of solutions to the Wobbling Table Problem , but it ’s certainly the comfortable — and now , perhaps , the geekiest , too . [ Numperphile ]