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This is the solution of what is sometimes known as Dido’s problem because of the story that Queen Dido of Tyre bargained for some land bounded on one side by the (straight) Mediterranean coast and agreed to pay a fixed sum for as much land as could be enclosed by a bull’s hide. Both statements can be expressed in a more algebraic form which indeed underlines the fact that they are equivalent.
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Gustafsson, B., Teodorescu, R., Vasil’ev, A. (2014). Capacities and Isoperimetric Inequalities. In: Classical and Stochastic Laplacian Growth. Advances in Mathematical Fluid Mechanics. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08287-5_5
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