Can You Hear the Shape of a Drum? (Complete Version) [Reel 2 of 2; Composite]

  • Film begins.
  • Mark Kac begins lecture.
  • Diffusion is a macroscopic manifestation of the microscopic motion of the tiny particles of stuff...
  • Each integral stands for a double integral.
  • It was Norbert Wiener who conceived the idea of making this a basis of a measure theory in the following sense
  • Now we know we can hear the shape of a drum.
  • Considers a convex drum.
  • Perform a few simple transformations
  • If you come even closer to the boundary, can one begin to feel the effects of curvature?
  • Shows solution on a slide.
  • Could introduce holes
  • End of lecture.
  • End film credits begin.