Who says that the theory of numbers is strictly academic? An old theorem due to Möbius has unexpectedly proved to be a way of solving physical problems of inversion that may have important applications.
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Maddox, J. Möbius and problems of inversion. Nature 344, 377 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1038/344377a0
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