Download or read book Extremal Riemann Surfaces written by John R. Quine and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1997 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Other papers deal with maximizing or minimizing functions defined by the spectrum such as the heat kernel, the zeta function, and the determinant of the Laplacian, some from the point of view of identifying an extremal metric.