Catalan's minimal surface
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Catalan's minimal surface
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In differential geometry, Catalan's minimal surface is a minimal surface originally studied by Eugène Charles Catalan in 1855. It has the special property of being the minimal surface that contains a cycloid as a geodesic. It is also swept out by a family of parabolae. The surface has the mathematical characteristics exemplified by the following parametric equation:
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