Making light of mathematics
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Publication:4804134
DOI10.1090/S0273-0979-03-00972-8zbMath1025.78001WikidataQ56226104 ScholiaQ56226104MaRDI QIDQ4804134
Publication date: 10 April 2003
Published in: Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)
Asymptotic approximations, asymptotic expansions (steepest descent, etc.) (41A60) Diffraction, scattering (78A45) Fractals (28A80) Mathematically heuristic optics and electromagnetic theory (must also be assigned at least one other classification number in Section 78-XX) (78A97) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to optics and electromagnetic theory (78-02)
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