Minimal surfaces via complex analysis. Maple Procedures and web links

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MINIMAL SURFACES!

Lecture notes:
    minimal.pdf   Minimal surfaces made with complex analysis.

Maple Procedures. The files ending in ".mws" are Maple worksheets. Save them to your directory or computer, and open them from Maple. If you want to see what's in these files without opening Maple, read the ".ps" or ".pdf" versions.
    gaussmap1.mws   Study the triple composition (St)oUoX for conformal minimal surfaces
    gaussmap1.ps  
    gaussmap1.pdf  

    WEreps.mws   Use the Weierstrass-Enneper procedure to construct minimal surfaces from (easy) analytic data.
    WEreps.ps  
    WEreps.pdf  

    History of Math Site   Look up your favorite historical mathematicians.

Internet Links for minimal surfaces and surfaces on constant mean curvature:
    GANG  The center for Geometry, Analysis, Numerics and Graphics, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
      constant mean curvature surfaces at GANG
      minimal surfaces at GANG
    SGP  The Scientific Graphics Project at the Math Sciences Research Institute, Berkelely California
      minimal surfaces index at SGP.

    http://www.lipsons.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/mathlego.htm   Minimal surfaces made out of lego - no kidding!

References: The paper by David Hoffman is a prize winner!
    D. Hoffman, "New Embedded Minimal Surfaces," Mathematical Intelligencer 9#3 (1987), 8-21.
    J. Oprea, "Differential Geometry and its Applications," Prentice Hall (1997), ISBN=0-13-340738-1
    J.E. Marsden and M.J. Hoffman, "Basic Complex Analysis," third edition, Freeman (1999), ISBN=0-7167-2877-X