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2019 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Billiards

Author : Leonid Bunimovich

Published in: The Abel Prize 2013-2017

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Light is what a newborn baby sees first. It is no wonder that people were always interested in light propagation. Fundamental laws were discovered through the centuries. However, it was Ya. G. Sinai who first laid the foundation for the study of global properties of light propagation in media which contain reflectors (scatterers, mirrors, etc) and obtained fundamental results in this area.

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Metadata
Title
Billiards
Author
Leonid Bunimovich
Copyright Year
2019
Book
The Abel Prize 2013-2017

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-99027-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-99028-6

Copyright Year: 2019

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99028-6_7

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