TY - BOOK AU - Wall,C.T.C. TI - Singular points of plane curves T2 - London Mathematical Society student texts SN - 9780511617560 (ebook) AV - QA614.58 .W35 2004 U1 - 512/.22 22 PY - 2004/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Singularities (Mathematics) KW - Congresses KW - Curves, Plane N1 - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) N2 - Even the simplest singularities of planar curves, e.g. where the curve crosses itself, or where it forms a cusp, are best understood in terms of complex numbers. The full treatment uses techniques from algebra, algebraic geometry, complex analysis and topology and makes an attractive chapter of mathematics, which can be used as an introduction to any of these topics, or to singularity theory in higher dimensions. This book is designed as an introduction for graduate students and draws on the author's experience of teaching MSc courses; moreover, by synthesising different perspectives, he gives a novel view of the subject, and a number of new results UR - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511617560 ER -