Real Analytic and Algebraic Singularities (Research Notes in Mathematics Series)
Publisher: Chapman & Hall/CRC
Published: December 12, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780582328747
Subjects: Algebra; Calculus & mathematical analysis; Global Analysis; Mathematics; Science/Mathematics; Algebra - General; Differential Equations; Geometry - General; Mathematics / Differential Equations; Functional Analysis
First sentence: The story began in 1965, when H.Whitney ([64, 65]) discovered a family of function germs Wt(x, y) = xy(x - y)(x - ty) : (R2, 0) (R, 0), t > 1 (parameter), which has an astounding property.