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The inverse problem of geophysics implies extracting information about the object of interest from experimental data (Goltsman 1977).
“. . . mathematics is a marvelously powerful tool for supplying the answers in many of our investigations, it can also be a dangerous tool if we do not use it properly. One of the dangers we have to guard against arises from including, for simplicity or convenience, some feature in our mathematical model of the Earth, and then drawing inferences about properties of the real Earth from our mathematical solution, whereas these deduced properties really stem only from the particular model we have chosen. This probably happens more often than we realise.”
(Price 1973)
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Rokityansky, I.I. (1982). The Inverse Problem. In: Geoelectromagnetic Investigation of the Earth’s Crust and Mantle. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61801-7_3
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