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In this chapter I would like to briefly describe some new results in the classical theory of minimal surfaces. These discoveries represent joint work with William H. Meeks III. Our research made critical use of the graphics programming software developed by James T. Hoffman at the University of Massachusetts. The central theorem is the following existence result [4], [5], [6].
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Hoffman, D.A. (1987). The Construction of Families of Embedded Minimal Surfaces. In: Concus, P., Finn, R. (eds) Variational Methods for Free Surface Interfaces. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4656-5_3
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