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Introduction and Basic Concepts

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An Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Inverse Problems

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In this section, we present some examples of pairs of problems that are inverse to each other. We start with some simple examples that are normally not even recognized as inverse problems. Most of them are taken from the survey article [136] and the monograph [99].

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Kirsch, A. (2011). Introduction and Basic Concepts. In: An Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Inverse Problems. Applied Mathematical Sciences, vol 120. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8474-6_1

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