The work of Jesse Douglas on Minimal Surfaces
History and Overview
2007-10-30 v1 Differential Geometry
Abstract
This paper describes the work of Jesse Douglas on the Plateau problem, work for which he was awarded a Fields Medal in 1936, and considers the contributions Tibor Rado made in the 1930s.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0710.5478,
title = {The work of Jesse Douglas on Minimal Surfaces},
author = {Jeremy Gray and Mario Micallef},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.5478},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
8 pages. Paper is accepted for publication in the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society fr April 2008