Real and Complex Singularities

Deals with various topics in singularity theory and its applications. This book discusses such topics as invariants of singularities, integral closure and equisingularity, classification theory, contact structures and vector fields, and Thom polynomials.

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This book offers a selection of papers based on talks at the Ninth International Workshop on Real and Complex Singularities, a series of biennial workshops organized by the Singularity Theory group at Sao Carlos, S.P., Brazil. The papers deal with all the different topics in singularity theory and its applications, from pure singularity theory related to commutative algebra and algebraic geometry to those topics associated with various aspects of geometry to homotopy theory.