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Fomenko, A.T., Ivanov, A.O., Tuzhilin, A.A. (2005). Visual Topology and Variational Problems on Two-Dimensional Surfaces. In: Emmer, M. (eds) Mathematics and Culture II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-26443-4_10

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