The Willmore Conjecture
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Date
2016
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Volume
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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Abstract
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