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The remainder of this book is essentially devoted to boundary value problems for minimal surfaces. The simplest of such problems was named Plateau’s problem, in honour of the Belgian physicist J.A.F. Plateau, although it had been formulated much earlier by Lagrange, Meusnier, and other mathematicians. It is the question of finding a surface of least area spanned by a given closed Jordan curve Γ.
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Dierkes, U., Hildebrandt, S., Küster, A., Wohlrab, O. (1992). The Plateau Problem and the Partially Free Boundary Problem for Minimal Surfaces. In: Minimal Surfaces I. Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften, vol 295. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02791-2_5
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