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Differentiable Germs and Catastrophes

Differentiable Germs and Catastrophes

Brocker, Theodor
Brocker
Brocker, Th

Paperback

Series: London Mathematical Society Lecture Note, Book 17

General MathematicsGeometry

ISBN10: 0521206812
ISBN13: 9780521206815
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jul 17 1975
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
These notes give a fairly elementary introduction to the local theory of differentiable mappings. Sard's Theorem and the Preparation Theorem of Malgrange and Mather are the basic tools and these are proved first. There follows a number of illustrations including: the local part of Whitney's Theorem on mappings of the plane into the plane, quadratic differentials, the Instability Theorem of Thom, one of Mather's theorems on finite determinacy and a glimpse of the theory of Toujeron. The later part of the book develops Mather's theory of unfoldings of singularities. Its application to Catastrophe theory is explained and the Elementary Catastrophes are illustrated by many pictures. The book is suitable as a text for courses to graduates and advanced undergraduates but may also be of interest to mathematical biologists and economists.

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