Mathematicians, Including Undergraduates, Look at Soap Bubbles

DOI10.2307/2975627zbMath0814.53002MaRDI QIDQ4299959

Frank Morgan

Publication date: 12 June 1995

Published in: The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2975627

zbMATH Keywords

soap bubbles; area-minimizing clusters; least perimeter way

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

49Q05: Minimal surfaces and optimization

53A10: Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature

53-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to differential geometry

58E12: Variational problems concerning minimal surfaces (problems in two independent variables)

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