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On minimizing the area of an enclosing surface subject to nonnegative Gaussian curvature
This is inspired by this previous question on physical processes that might give rise to convex hulls.
Consider the problem of gift-wrapping a three-dimensional object using an inextensible material, ...
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What is the connection between optimization and symmetry?
I have found that in many optimization problems, there is some sort of "local symmetry" phenomena going on. For example, suppose we have a 'nice' function which has $f'(x)=0$, then we will ...
