Can One Hear the Shape of a Drum?

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DOI10.2307/2313748zbMath0139.05603WikidataQ55881910 ScholiaQ55881910MaRDI QIDQ5513923

Mark Kac

Publication date: 1966

Published in: The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2313748


35P99: Spectral theory and eigenvalue problems for partial differential equations


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