Title: Introduction to global analysis
Subtitle: minimal surfaces in Riemannian manifolds
Subjects: Global analysis (mathematics), Minimal surfaces, Riemannian manifolds, Global analysis (Mathematics), Manifolds (Mathematics), Morse theory, Global analysis, analysis on manifolds, Variational problems in infinite-dimensional spaces, Applications to minimal surfaces (problems in two independent variables), Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Ljusternik-Schnirelmann (Lyusternik-Shnirel'mann) theory, etc.), Functional analysis, Nonlinear functional analysis, Manifolds of mappings, Differential geometry, Global differential geometry, Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching, Algebraic topology, Homotopy theory, Rational homotopy theory