The Willmore Conjecture

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Datum
2016
Serie
Snapshots of modern mathematics from Oberwolfach; 2016,11
Autor
Nowaczyk, Nikolai
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SNAP-2016-011-EN
Zusammenfassung
The Willmore problem studies which torus has the least amount of bending energy. We explain how to think of a torus as a donut-shaped surface and how the intuitive notion of bending has been studied by mathematics over time.
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10.14760/SNAP-2016-011-EN
Mathematical Subject
Geometry and Topology
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