This book is the first monograph dedicated wholly to Willmore energy and surfaces as contemporary topics in differential geometry. It also sits at the intersection between integrable systems, harmonic maps, Lie groups, calculus of variations, geometric analysis and applied differential geometry.
Publisher: Chapman & Hall
Publication Place: UK
Publication Year: 2017-11-09
Language: English
Number of Pages: 156
Edition: 1
Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Monographs and Research Notes in Mathematics
Tracing development of scientific sociology from Comte onwards, this book provides a narrative history of figures, ideas, and schools that lie behind ..