Timeline for Why do people study curve shortening flows?
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| May 7, 2020 at 21:07 | comment | added | Hollis Williams | It is used in many, many proofs of geometric inequalities: for example, see the following homepages.warwick.ac.uk/~maseq/crll.1998.099.pdf. Also just because an object is simple doesn't mean there is little to study about them. Graphs are simple, that doesn't mean graph theory is trivial, far from it. If you are studying Ricci flow, you should surely have an appreciation for and interest in other geometric flows. | |
| Apr 5, 2017 at 18:08 | vote | accept | Dominic Wynter | ||
| Apr 4, 2017 at 18:28 | comment | added | Thompson | I'm surprised by the many up-votes. There was a time this sort of question was not OK. It's a kind of 'What's the deal with Topic X' type question. Have you "thoroughly searched for an answer before asking your question"? (quoted from the 'How to ask a good question' page). I think Lee Mosher's comment sort of nails it to be honest: I can paraphrase your first paragraph as "In studying Riemannian geometry, I am presented with lots of evidence that deep and interesting work is done on curve shortening flow". But then it's like you go on to ask "Can this really be true?" | |
| Apr 4, 2017 at 2:47 | comment | added | Lee Mosher | Well, you cannot have it both ways. Either curves are so simple there is relatively little to study, or there are some deep and beautiful things to study about curves such as.... the curve shortening flow. | |
| Apr 4, 2017 at 1:37 | answer | added | Paul Bryan | timeline score: 7 | |
| Apr 4, 2017 at 0:54 | answer | added | Alec Payne | timeline score: 11 | |
| Apr 3, 2017 at 21:55 | comment | added | Piyush Grover | Wikipedia article has bunch of math/non-math applications:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curve-shortening_flow#Applications | |
| Apr 3, 2017 at 20:55 | answer | added | Joseph O'Rourke | timeline score: 18 | |
| Apr 3, 2017 at 20:50 | answer | added | Igor Rivin | timeline score: 17 | |
| Apr 3, 2017 at 20:42 | history | asked | Dominic Wynter | CC BY-SA 3.0 |