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A random matrix is a matrix whose entries consist of random variables from some specified distribution. Random matrices have many modern applications in physics, finance, statistics and numerical analysis.

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Why did statisticians define random matrices?

In theoretical physics random matrices play an important role to understand universal features of energy spectra of systems with particular symmetries. My background in theoretical physics may cause …
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