Singularity theory : proceedings of the European Singularities Conference, Liverpool, August 1996. Dedicated to C.T.C. Wall on the occasion of his 60th birthday / edited by Bill Bruce, David Mond.

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Singularities arising from lattice polytopes / K. Altmann -- Critical points of affine multiforms on the complements of arrangements / J.N. Damon -- Strange duality, mirror symmetry and the Leech lattice / W. Ebeling -- Geometry of equisingular families of curves / G-M. Greuel and E. Shustin -- Arrangements, KZ systems and Lie algebra homology / E.J.N. Looijenga -- The signature of f(x, y) + zn / A. Nemethi -- Spectra of K-unimodal isolated singularities of complete intersections / J.M. Steenbrink -- Dynkin graphs, Gabriélov graphs and triangle singularities / T. Urabe -- Differential forms on singular varieties and cyclic homology / J.P. Brasselet and Y. Legrand -- Continuous controlled Vector fields ; Finiteness of Mather's canonical stratification / A.A. du Plessis -- Trends in equisingularity theory / T.J. Gaffney and D. Massey -- Regularity at infinity of real and complex polynomial functions / M. Tibar -- A Bennequin number estimate for transverse knots / V.V. Goryunov and J.W. Hill -- Abelian branched covers of the projective plane / A. Libgober -- Elimination of singularities : Thom polynomials and beyond / O. Saeki and K. Sakuma -- An introduction to the image-computing spectral sequence / K.A. Houston -- On the classification and geometry of Corank-1 Map-Germs from three-space to four-space / K.A. Houston and N.P. Kirk -- Multiplicities of zero-schemes in quasihomogeneous corank-1 singularities Cn -- Cn / W.L. Marar, J.A. Montaldi and M.A.S. Ruas -- Butterflies and umbilics of stable perturbations of analytic Map-Germs (C5,0) -- (C4,0) / T. Fukui -- Singular phenomena in kinematics / P.S. Donelan and C.G. Gibson -- Singularities of developable surfaces / G. Ishikawa -- singularities of solutions of first order partial differential equations / S. Izumiya.

Singularity theory is a broad subject with vague boundaries. It draws on many other areas of mathematics, and in turn has contributed to many areas both within and outside mathematics, in particular differential and algebraic geometry, knot theory, differential equations, bifurcation theory, Hamiltonian mechanics, optics, robotics and computer vision. This volume consists of two dozen articles from some of the best known figures in singularity theory, and it presents an up-to-date survey of research in this area.