Resumen de The shape of a sausage: a challenging problem in the calculus of variations

Michael A.B. Deakin

• Many familiar household objects (such as sausages) involve the maximization of a volume under geometric constraints. A flexible but inextensible membrane bounds a volume which is to be filled to capacity. In the case of the sausage, a full analytic solution is here provided. Other related but more difficult problems seem to demand approximate methods of solution.