Elliott W. Montroll, Frequency Spectrum of Vibrations of a Crystal Lattice, The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 61, No. 7, Part 2: Proceedings of the Symposium on Special Topics in Applied Mathematics (Aug. - Sep., 1954), pp. 46-73
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