Oldies but goldies: Eugene Wigner, Characteristic Vectors of Bordered Matrices with Infinite Dimensions, 1955. The empirical distribution of eigenvalues of random symmetric matrices converges to a half-circle density. https://t.co/DBYQqA1jlE pic.twitter.com/qGgXaKgEGY

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