Book:T. Poston/Taylor Expansions and Catastrophes

Subject Matter

 * Catastrophe Theory

This book consists of five so far unpublished papers, although chapters 2 to 4 appeared as preprints in a different form.

Contents

 * Preface


 * 1. A sketch of the topologist's calculus (Tim Poston and Ian Stewart)
 * 2. Thom's classification theorem - an intuitive approach (Tim Poston and Ian Stewart)
 * 3. Rules for determinacy and unfolding computations (Tim Poston)
 * 4. The geometry of binary quartic forms (Tim Poston and Ian Stewart)
 * 5. Gravitational catastrophe machines (Tim Poston)


 * Index