Surface area in the study of fractals. Extensions of the notion of area which partially fulfill its function and may be defined even for very badly irregular surfaces are studied in geometric measure theory. A specific example of such an extension is the Minkowski content of the surface. The below given formulas can be used to show that the surface area of a sphere and cylinder of the same radius and height are in the ratio 2 : 3, as follows. Let the radius be "r" and the height be "h" (which is 2"r" for the sphere). formula_7 The discovery of this
Filling area conjecture onto , without increasing its volume. This implies that the replacement has not less volume than the original manifold . Filling area conjecture In differential geometry, Mikhail Gromov's filling area conjecture asserts that the hemisphere has minimum area among the surfaces that fill a closed curve of given length without introducing shortcuts between its points. Every smooth surface or curve in Euclidean space is a metric space, in which the (intrinsic) distance between two points of is defined as the infimum of the lengths of the curves that go from to "along" . For example, on a closed curve formula_1