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Willmore conjecture  

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  • In differential geometry, the Willmore conjecture is a lower bound on the Willmore energy of a torus. It is named after the English mathematician Tom Willmore, who conjectured it in 1965. A proof by Fernando Codá Marques and André Neves was announced in 2012 and published in 2014.
    (Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willmore_conjecture)

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