This dissertation contains meaningful results on two problems.1. I prove that the spectrum of the Laplace-Beltrami operator with the Neumann boundary condition on a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary admits a fast approximation by the spectra of suitable graph Laplacians on the manifold, and more generally similar graph approximation works for metric-measure spaces which are glued out of compact Riemannian manifolds of the same dimension.2. Given a diffeomorphism which is homotopic to the identity from the 2-torus to itself, we construct an isotopy whose norm is controlled by that of the diffeomorphism in question.