Making light of mathematics

DOI10.1090/S0273-0979-03-00972-8MaRDI QIDQ4804134zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors M. V. Berry

Publication date 10 April 2003

Published in Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

optical phenomenamathematical phenomena

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic approximations, asymptotic expansions (steepest descent, etc.) (41A60) Diffraction, scattering (78A45) Fractals (28A80) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to optics and electromagnetic theory (78-02) Mathematically heuristic optics and electromagnetic theory (must also be assigned at least one other classification number in Section 78-XX) (78A97)

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