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The paper presents a survey study of qualitative properties of a wide class of eigenvalue problems for differential equations, as well as their numerical approximation. The author gives some practical physical problems which can be modelled mathematically by the linear wave equation, and also several related problems. For ordinary as well as partial differential operators, theorems on spectral properties, including completeness of eigenvectors and spectral decomposition, are proved, in appropriate Hilbert spaces with positive weights. For problems with a discrete spectrum, numerical techniques like the Rayleigh-Ritz method, the inverse power method, and the inverse subspace iteration, are investigated. Considerable part of the paper is devoted to the lower and upper bounds for eigenvalues: the bounds of Weinstein, Kato, Rayleigh-Ritz, Lehmann, as well as the homotopy method, are studied. Some examples with numerical results are given. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0869.00045].