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    Johannes C. C. Nitsche

  2. Institute of Technology, University of Minnesota, 55455, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

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Research sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under AFOSR Grant Nr. 883-67 and by the National Science Foundation under Grant GP 4572.

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Nitsche, J.C.C., Leavitt, J. Numerical estimates for minimal surfaces. Math. Ann. 180, 170–174 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01350745

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