MINKOWSKI, HERMANN. - THE MINKOWSKI PROBLEM.

Volumen und Oberfläche.

Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1903. Orig. printed wrappers. No backstrip. In: "Mathematische Annalen begründet durch Georg Clebsch und Carl Neumann", 57. Bd., 4. Heft. The whole issue offered (=4.heft). Pp. 425-572. Minkowski's paper: pp. 447-495.

First appearance of the formulation of the Minkowski Problem.
The Minkowski problem deals with existence, uniqueness, regularity, and stability of closed convex hypersurfaces whose Gauss curvature (as a function of the outer normals) is preassigned. Major contributions to this problem were made by Minkowski in the offered paper.

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