* 14 October 1801, † 15 September 1883
Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau was born on 14 October 1801 in Brussels, French Empire (now Belgium). Joseph Plateau was a Belgian mathematician best known for Plateau’s problem on surfaces of minimal area. Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau died on 15 September 1883 in Ghent, Belgium.
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