When Does Water Find the Shortest Path Downhill? The Geometry of Steepest Descent Curves

DOI10.2307/3647959MaRDI QIDQ4469084zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Daniel Drucker, Stephen A. Williams

Publication date 14 June 2004

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/3647959

zbMATH Keywords

geodesicsgradient lineslines of steepest descent

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear programming (90C30) Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60) Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Incompressible inviscid fluids (76B99) Teaching mathematical problem solving and heuristic strategies (97D50)

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