TY - BOOK ID - 139064723 TI - Random matrix theory and its applications AU - Bai, Zhidong AU - Chen, Yang AU - Liang, Ying-Chang PY - 2009 SN - 1282758047 9786612758041 9814273120 9789814273121 9789814273114 9814273112 9781282758049 661275804X PB - Hackensack, NJ World Scientific DB - UniCat KW - Random matrices. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:139064723 AB - Random matrix theory has a long history, beginning in the first instance in multivariate statistics. It was used by Wigner to supply explanations for the important regularity features of the apparently random dispositions of the energy levels of heavy nuclei. The subject was further deeply developed under the important leadership of Dyson, Gaudin and Mehta, and other mathematical physicists. In the early 1990's, random matrix theory witnessed applications in string theory and deep connections with operator theory, and the integrable systems were established by Tracy and Widom. More recently, ER -