The Willmore Conjecture

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11/2016

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Snapshots of Modern Mathematics from Oberwolfach

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Oberwolfach : Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach gGmbH

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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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CC BY-SA 4.0 Unported