Differentiable Germs and Catastrophes
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Differentiable Germs and Catastrophes

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Differentiable Germs and Catastrophes

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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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Dedication
  7. Foreword
  8. 1· Germs with constant rank
  9. 2· Regular values
  10. 3· Construction of differentiable maps
  11. 4· Germs and jets
  12. 5· The division theorem
  13. 6· The preparation theorem
  14. 7· Symmetric germs
  15. 8· Mappings of the plane into the plane
  16. 9· Boardman-Thorn singularities
  17. 10· The quadratic differential
  18. 11· Finitely determined germs
  19. 12· Some elementary algebraic geometry
  20. 13· Tougeron's theory
  21. 14· The universal unfolding of a singularity
  22. 15· The seven elementary catastrophes
  23. 16· Proof of the main theorem on universal unfoldings
  24. 17· Pictures of the seven elementary catastrophes
  25. Further Reading
  26. List of symbols
  27. Index