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Author:Richard Mansfield

Title: Herman Auerbach's counterexample to a conjecture of S.M. Ulam concerning floating bodies

Archive date: Thu Feb 2 12:24:30 1995

Abstract: We present Auerbach's construction of a non-circular right cylinder which floats at any orientation for which its axis is parallel to the surface of the water.

Available formats: This paper is available in PostScript.

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