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Motivations and the physical point of view

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Bérard, P.H. (1986). Motivations and the physical point of view. In: Spectral Geometry: Direct and Inverse Problems. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1207. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0076331

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