Abstract |
The theory of minimal surbmanifolds has its origin in the theory of calculus of variations developed by Euler and Lagrange in the 18th century and in later investigations by Schwarz, Riemann and Weierstrass in the 19th century, but it has very recently seen remarkable advances that have solved lots of long standing open problems. In the first talk, we illustrate various proofs of Bernstein’s Theorem that the only entire solutions of minimal surface equation are affine functions. |