Surfaces which contain many circles
Nobuko Takeuchi (2008)
Banach Center Publications
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We survey the results on surfaces which contain many circles. First, we give two analyses of shapes which always look round. Then we introduce the Blum conjecture: “A closed surface in E³ which contains seven circles through each point is a sphere”, and give some partial affirmative results toward the conjecture. Moreover, we study some surfaces which contain many circles through each point, for example, cyclides.