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Publication Type	honors thesis
School or College	College of Science
Department	Mathematics
Thesis Supervisor	Domingo Toledo
Honors Advisor/Mentor	Don H. Tucker
Creator	Green, Michael Douglas
Title	Minimal surfaces
Date	1988-06
Year graduated	1988
Description	The study of minimal surfaces is an active branch of mathematics, with many questions yet to be answered. One major question that was answered in 1985 was whether the plane, the catenoid, and the helicoid are the only complete embedded minimal surfaces in R3 of a finite topological type. In [4] Hoffman and Meeks proved that the answer to this question is that other surfaces of this type do exist, and they proved this by finding an example. We discuss that example here, but rather than prove that the surface is complete and embedded we concern ourselves mainly with the shape of the surface.
Type	Text
Publisher	University of Utah
Subject	Minimal surfaces - Mathematics
Language	eng
Rights Management	(c) Michael Douglas Green
Format Medium	application/pdf
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Reference URL	https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s65b44s0

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Reference URL	https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s65b44s0/1314553