Minimal surfaces in Euclidean spaces by way of complex analysis (Q6086347)

This article is an expanded version of the author's plenary lecture at the \(8\)th European Congress of Mathematics in Portorož on 23 June 2021. Sections 1 and 2 are a self-contained elementary introduction to the theory of minimal surfaces in Euclidean spaces, which is accessible to a wide audience. The main part is Section 3, which is a survey of recent results concerning approximation, interpolation, and general position properties of minimal surfaces, existence of minimal surfaces with a given Gauss map, and the Calabi-Yau problem for minimal surfaces. A detailed presentation is available in the monograph and in the AMS Memoir by \textit{A. Alarcón} et al., [Minimal surfaces from a complex analytic viewpoint. Cham: Springer (2021; Zbl 1520.53001)]. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1519.00033].