isepiphanic inequality
The classical isepiphanic inequality
concerns the volume and the area of any solid in . It asserts that the ball has the greatest volume among the solids having a given area.
For a ball with radius , we have
whence it follows the equality
Cf. the isoperimetric inequality and the isoperimetric problem
.
References
- 1 Patrik Nordbeck: Isoperimetriska problemet eller Varför ser man så få fyrkantiga träd? Examensarbete. Lund University (1995).