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A brief history of minimal surfaces and the ants that love them

Source
Phys.org

Publication Date
2021-11-17

Consider a soap bubble. The way it contains the minimal possible surface area is surprisingly efficient. This is not a trivial issue. Mathematicians have been looking for better ways to calculate minimal surfaces for hundreds of years.

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https://phys.org/news/2021-11-history-minimal-surfaces-ants.html