Singularity Theory [Paperback]

Professor Arnold is a prolific and versatile mathematician who has done striking work in differential equations and geometrical aspects of analysis.Professor Arnold is a prolific and versatile mathematician who has done striking work in differential equations and geometrical aspects of analysis. In this volume are collected seven of his survey articles from Russian Mathematical Surveys on singularity theory, the area to which he has made most contribution. These surveys contain Arnold's own analysis and synthesis of a decade's work.Professor Arnold is a prolific and versatile mathematician who has done striking work in differential equations and geometrical aspects of analysis. In this volume are collected seven of his survey articles from Russian Mathematical Surveys on singularity theory, the area to which he has made most contribution. These surveys contain Arnold's own analysis and synthesis of a decade's work.Professor Arnold is a prolific and versatile mathematician who has done striking work in differential equations and geometrical aspects of analysis. In this volume are collected seven of his survey articles from Russian Mathematical Surveys on singularity theory, the area to which he has made most contribution. These surveys contain Arnold's own analysis and synthesis of a decade's work. All those interested in singularity theory will find this an invaluable compilation. Professor C. T. C. Wall has written an introduction outlining the significance and content of the articles.Intoduction C. T. C. Wall; 1. Singularities of smooth mappings (Volume 23, 1968); 2. On matrices depending on parameters (Volume 26, 1971); 3. Remarks on the stationary phase method and Coxeter numbers (Volume 28, 1973); 4. Normal forms of functions in neighbourhoods of degenerate critical points (Volume 29, 1974); 5. Critical points of smooth functions and their normal forms (Volume 30, 1975); 6. Critical points of functions on a manifold with boundary, the simple Lie groups Bk, Ck al#O