Lectures on Minimal Surfaces: Volume 1, Introduction, Fundamentals, Geometry and Basic Boundary Value Problems - Nitsche, Johannes C. C. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis)

This 1989 monograph deals with parametric minimal surfaces in Euclidean space. The author presents a broad survey which extends from the classical beginnings to the situation at the time of publication, whilst highlighting many of the subject's main features and interspersing the mathematical development with pertinent historical remarks.