Singularities, Bifurcations and Catastrophes

‘This beautiful book is in fact a course which can be viewed as addressed to undergraduate and graduate students, to junior and senior researchers, to the teaching staff (faculty), and to other people interested in the field.’ Vladimir Răsvan, European Mathematical Society‘This mostly self-contained and user-friendly textbook, aimed at advanced undergraduate level and above, provides a careful and accessible introduction to methods of singularity theory that underlie much of local bifurcation theory.’ D. R. J. Chillingworth, MathSciNet

James Montaldi is Reader in Mathematics at University of Manchester. He has worked both in theoretical aspects of singularity theory as well as applications to dynamical systems, and co-edited the books: Geometric Mechanics and Symmetry: The Peyresq Lectures (Cambridge, 2005), Peyresq Lectures in Nonlinear Systems (2000), and Singularity Theory and its Applications Part 1 (1991).