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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 May 2013
    17 July 1975
    ISBN:
    9781107325418
    9780521206815
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107325418
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    Weight & Pages:
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.29kg, 188 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Mathematics (general), Mathematics, Geometry and Topology
    Series:
    London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series (17)
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    Subjects:
    Mathematics (general), Mathematics, Geometry and Topology
    Series:
    London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series (17)
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    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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