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  1. Department of Mathematics and Institute of Theoretical Dynamics, University of California, 95616, Davis, CA, USA

    Craig A. Tracy

  2. Department of Mathematics, University of California, 95064, Santa Cruz, CA, USA

    Harold Widom

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Tracy, C.A., Widom, H. (1993). Introduction to random matrices. In: Helminck, G.F. (eds) Geometric and Quantum Aspects of Integrable Systems. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 424. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0021444

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