Differentiable Germs and Catastrophes

, by Theodor BrÃ¶cker , Translated by L. Lander

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ISBN: 9780521206815 | 0521206812
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 8/29/1975

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This book gives a fairly elementary introduction to the local theory of differentiable mappings and is suitable as a text for courses to graduates and advanced undergraduates.

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Foreword
Germs with constant rank
Regular values
Construction of differentiable maps
Germs and jets
The division theorem
The preparation theorem
Symmetric germs
Mappings of the plane into the plane
Boardman-Thom singularities
The quadratic differential
Finitely determined germs
Some elementary algebraic geometry
Tougeron's theory
The universal unfolding of a singularity
The seven elementary catastrophes
Proof of the main theorem on universal unfoldings
Pictures of the seven elementary catastrophes
Further reading
Indices
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