How we 'hear' the shape of a drum
Tuesday, July 14, 2020 - 09:10
in Mathematics & Economics
How is it that we can recognise the shape of an object despite only seeing a limited range of wave lengths? Radboud mathematician Walter van Suijlekom explains in a new publication in the journal Communications in Mathematical Physics on 14 July. "We can compare this to MP3s: with a limited range of sound waves, we easily get the impression we are listening to an analogue recording of music." This finding eventually means that we should be able to calculate the shape of our universe.