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minimal surface

surface that locally minimizes its area
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minimal surface

Summary

minimal surface ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (223 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • minimal surface's GND ID is recorded as 4127814-8[2].
  • minimal surface's subclass of is recorded as surface[3].
  • minimal surface's subclass of is recorded as constant-mean-curvature surface[4].
  • minimal surface's Commons category is recorded as Minimal surfaces[5].
  • minimal surface's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01pd_2[6].
  • minimal surface's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph161649[7].
  • minimal surface's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Minimal surfaces[8].
  • minimal surface's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[9].
  • minimal surface's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 8[10].
  • minimal surface's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/minimal-surface[11].
  • minimal surface's topic has template is recorded as Template:Minimal surfaces[12].
  • minimal surface's MathWorld ID is recorded as MinimalSurfaces[13].
  • minimal surface's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 2215405[14].
  • minimal surface's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as surfaces-d-aire-minimale[15].
  • minimal surface's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as minimal-surfaces[16].
  • minimal surface's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[17].
  • minimal surface's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 30707913[18].
  • minimal surface's Brilliant Wiki ID is recorded as math-of-soap-bubbles-and-honeycombs[19].
  • minimal surface's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007551146005171[20].
  • minimal surface's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C30707913[21].
  • minimal surface's Lexikon der Mathematik entry ID is recorded as 6393[22].
  • minimal surface's Yale LUX ID is recorded as concept/1a510cbe-ef9f-496c-b1a6-078305b82e94[23].

Why It Matters

minimal surface ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (223 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] It is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [6] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . National Library of Israel Names and Subjects Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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