ISBN-13: 9783540640097 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 711 str.
ISBN-13: 9783540640097 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 711 str.
A monograph that deals with non scalar variational problems arising in geometry, as harmonic mappings between Riemannian manifolds and minimal graphs, and in physics, as stable equilibrium configurations in nonlinear elasticity or for liquid crystals. It treats the topics in an elementary way, illustrating results with simple examples.