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Minimal surfaces based on the catenoid

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Hoffman as discussed by the authors was the 1990 winner of the MAA Chauvenet Prize for Mathematical Programming. But he was not the winner of this prize in the 1990s.
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DAVID HOFFMAN is Professor of Mathematics and Co-Director of the Geometry, Analysis, Numerics and Graphics Center (GANG) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He earned his Ph.D. in mathematics at Stanford, after receiving undergraduate degrees at the University of Rochester (in history and mathematics). He has pursued research and/or teaching at the Universities of Durham and Warwick (UK), Michigan and Stanford, as well as IMPA (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and the University of Paris VII. He is the 1990 recipient of the MAA Chauvenet Prize.

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Gesammelte mathematische Abhandlungen

TL;DR: Weierstrass et al. as discussed by the authors presented an algebraic model of the Minimalflache, which was used for the analysis of the Variationsrechnung.
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The structure of complete stable minimal surfaces in 3-manifolds of non-negative scalar curvature

TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that stable minimal surfaces in Riemannian 3-manifolds can be expressed analytically by the condition that o n any compact domain of M, the first eigenvalue of the operator A+Ric(v)+AI* be positive.
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Equilibrium bicontinuous structure

TL;DR: A bicontinuous structure is a bicountinuous partitioning in which each subvolume is filled with a distinct, not necessarily uniform composition or state of matter.