Isoperimetric problem (Dido)

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Dido of Carthage problem (~800 BCE): max area enclosed by perimeter L is L^2/(4 pi) (circle); generalized via Lagrange-multipliers to constrained variational problems; modern Sobolev-isoperimetric.

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