Patterns in Eigenvalues: the 70th Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture
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Typical large unitary matrices show remarkable patterns in their eigenvalue distribution. These same patterns appear in telephone encryption, the zeros of Riemann’s zeta function, a variety of physics problems, and in the study of Toeplitz operators. This paper surveys these applications and what is currently known about the patterns.
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