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1984 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

The Mystics of Catastrophe Theory

verfasst von : Vladimir Igorevich Arnold

Erschienen in: Catastrophe Theory

Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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The applications of singularity theory to the natural sciences are not the only aspects of catastrophe theory; along with the concrete investigations of the Zeeman type one has the more philosophical work of the mathematician René Thorn who first revealed the universality of the Whitney singularity theory (and the preceding work of Poincaré and Andronov on bifurcation theory), introduced the term ‘catastrophe theory’ and has been a great propagandist for the subject.

Metadaten
Titel
The Mystics of Catastrophe Theory
verfasst von
Vladimir Igorevich Arnold
Copyright-Jahr
1984
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-96799-3_15