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Scattering theory means different things to different people. Broadly speaking it can be thought of as the study of the interaction of an evolutionary process with a nonhomogeneous medium. Certainly, it has played a central role in mathematical physics over the years with perhaps the earliest investigation of such phenomena being attributed to Leonard da Vinci who studied the scattering of light into the geometrical shadow of an opaque body. Subsequently other scattering processes have been discovered and often utilised in such varied fields as acoustics, quantum mechanics and medical diagnosis.
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Roach, G.F. (1990). Aspects of Nonlinear Scattering Theory. In: Krbec, M., Kufner, A., Opic, B., Rákosník, J. (eds) Nonlinear Analysis, Function Spaces and Applications Vol. 4. TEUBNER-TEXTE zur Mathematik. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-01272-6_6
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