Soap bubbles and mathematics

MaRDI QIDQ269629zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Frank Morgan

Publication date 19 April 2016

Published in European Mathematical Society Newsletter (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

minimal surfacessoap bubbles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Mathematics and visual arts (00A66) Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Numerical aspects of computer graphics, image analysis, and computational geometry (65D18)

Review text

This is a review paper on soap bubbles and minimal surfaces written by one of the leading experts on the topic. The paper is addressed to a wide audience, not only scholars. It contains several images describing some kinds of soap bubbles and in particular one image shows how human cells look and act like soap bubbles.

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