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The computer-aided discovery of new embedded minimal surfaces

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    David Hoffman & Henri Matisse

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Hoffman, D., Matisse, H. The computer-aided discovery of new embedded minimal surfaces. The Mathematical Intelligencer 9, 8–21 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03023947

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