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Étienne Ghys
École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
MR ID: 73135
Reference #
OMN:201612.110637

Attributes

Posted date
2016-12-06 19:41:28
Revised date
2019-02-11 09:07:31
Level
   Undergraduate
   Graduate
Notes type
   Topics Course
Topic
   Introduction to Mathematics
      Other
   Algebra
      Commutative Algebra
   Analysis
      Complex Analysis
   Discrete Mathematics
      Combinatorics
      Graph Theory
   Geometry
      Algebraic Geometry
      Other
   Topology
      Algebraic Topology
      Geometric Topology and Knot Theory

A Singular Mathematical Promenade

This is neither an elementary introduction to singularity theory nor a specialized treatise containing many new theorems. The purpose of this little book is to invite the reader on a mathematical promenade. We pay a visit to Hipparchus, Newton and Gauss, but also to many contemporary mathematicians. We play with a bit of algebra, topology, geometry, complex analysis and computer science.

This title has been published by the European Mathematical Society as a finished book and is available at http://catalogue-editions.ens-lyon.fr/fr/livre/?GCOI=29021100476860