It is a rather disheartening experience to be told that the exact solution of the wave equation will in the end be the solution of the wave equation of one single atom, and that for an aggregate of atoms, the exact solution is out of reach.
Wave mechanics
Nobel Lecture, 'The Fundamental Idea of Wave Mechanics'
1933
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