Author: Edward T May
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Keywords: singularities
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 2005-08-02
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0595366325
ISBN-13: 9780595366323

Before she’s murdered a young woman swallows her bracelet, knowing it will provide a clue to the identity of her killer. A military outpost on an alien world becomes enmeshed in a bizarre and terrifying ecosystem. Two pioneer families escape from a Sioux war party, only to find the horrors have just begun. When a boy’s sense of smell is enhanced subsequent to a head injury, he finds the experience to be both a blessing and a curse. A young man with a phobia of underpasses finds the cure for his fear is ultimately worse than the disease. Enter the world of Singulariti

Author: Susan Howe
Publisher: Wesleyan
Keywords: poetry, wesleyan, singularities
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 1990-10-15
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0819511943
ISBN-13: 9780819511942

A celebration of language by a gifted poet.

Author: V. I. Arnold
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Keywords: mathematics, vol, soviet, advances, bifurcations, singularities
Number of Pages: 262
Published: 1995-03
List price: $116.00
ISBN-10: 0821802372
ISBN-13: 9780821802373

This book contains papers growing out of recent work of the Singularity Seminar at Moscow State University. The main topic of most of the papers is the analysis of singularities of discriminant hypersurfaces formed by the degenerate objects in different spaces of mappings. Among the topics covered are: the space of mappings of the circle to three-space; invariants, bifurcations, and classifications of plane curves; algebraic invariants of the Morse complex; complex boundary singularities; spaces of morsifications of singularities; and the number of singular points on a comple

Author: V. I. Arnold
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: fermiane, lezione, applications, singularities, theory
Number of Pages: 74
Published: 1991-05-31
List price: $32.99
ISBN-10: 0521422809
ISBN-13: 9780521422802

This book describes those singularities encountered in different branches of mathematics. The distinguished mathematician, Vladimir Arnold, avoids giving difficult proofs of all the results in order to provide the reader with a concise and accessible overview of the many guises and areas in which singularities appear. Some of these areas include geometry and optics, optimal control theory and algebraic geometry, reflection groups theory, dynamical systems theory, and the classical and quantum catastrophe theory.

Author: Jan Stevens
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: mathematics, notes, lecture, singularities, deformations
Number of Pages: 157
Published: 2003-04-28
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 3540005609
ISBN-13: 9783540005605

These notes deal with deformation theory of complex analytic singularities and related objects. The first part treats general theory. The central notion is that of versal deformationin several variants. The theory is developed both in an abstract way and in a concrete way suitable for computations. The second part deals with more specific problems, specially on curves and surfaces. Smoothings of singularities are the main concern. Examples are spread throughout the text.

Author: Alexandru Dimca
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: universitext, hypersurfaces, topology, singularities
Number of Pages: 279
Published: 1992-04-29
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 0387977090
ISBN-13: 9780387977096

This book systematically presents a large number of basic results on the topology of complex algebraic varieties using the information on the local topology and geometry of a singularity. These concepts are then used in the computation of global topological invariants, such as homology groups, cohomology groups, fundamental groups, and Alexander polynomials. The reader will derive from this text a working knowledge of Whitney stratifications, Lefschetz-type theorems, knots and links, Milnor fibrations, vanishing cycles, weighted projective space, mixed Hodge structures and many other related n

Author: Richard Randell
Publisher: Amer Mathematical Society
Keywords: mathematics, contemporary, proceedings, singularities
Number of Pages: 359
Published: 1989-06
List price: $59.00
ISBN-10: 0821850962
ISBN-13: 9780821850961

This volume contains the proceedings of the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications Participating Institutions Conference on Singularities, held at the University of Iowa in July 1986. The conference brought together an international group of researchers in algebraic and analytic singularity theory. This collection consists of research papers related to talks given at the conference. The field of singularities takes techniques from and gives results to many areas of mathematics, including algebraic and differential geometry and topology, complex analysis, Lie algebr