Whitney’s Singularity Theory

Vladimir I. Arnold
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Vladimir I. Arnold: Steklov Mathematical Institute

Chapter 2 in Catastrophe Theory, 1992, pp 3-6 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In 1955 the American mathematician Hassler Whitney published the article ‘Mappings of the plane into the plane‘, laying the foundations for a new mathematical theory - the theory of singularities of smooth mappings.

Keywords: Smooth Mapping; Singularity Theory; Inverse Image; Catastrophe Theory; Horizontal Projection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1992
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-58124-3_2

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