Plateau's laws describe the structure of soap films. These laws were formulated in the 19th century by the Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau from his experimental...

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In mathematics, Plateau's problem is to show the existence of a minimal surface with a given boundary, a problem raised by Joseph-Louis Lagrange in 1760...

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now named after him. He studied soap films intensively, formulating Plateau's laws which describe the structures formed by films in foams. Lord Kelvin...

geometric measure theory. Later Jean Taylor after Fred Almgren proved Plateau's laws for the kind of singularities that can occur in these more general soap...

the wind passes over sand, it creates patterns of dunes. Foams obey Plateau's laws, which require films to be smooth and continuous, and to have a constant...

to having a bounded number of smooth pieces. Jean Taylor's proof of Plateau's laws describes how these pieces must be shaped and connected to each other...

hexagonal faces. However, this honeycomb does not satisfy Plateau's laws, formulated by Joseph Plateau in the 19th century, according to which minimal foam...

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