Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Background
- 3 The seven elementary catastrophes
- 4 The geometry of the seven elementary catastrophes
- 5 Applications in physics
- 6 Applications in the social sciences
- 7 Applications in biology
- 8 Morphogenesis
- 9 Conclusions
- Exercises
- Appendix. Elementary catastrophes of codimension ≦ 5
- References
- Author index
- Subject index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Background
- 3 The seven elementary catastrophes
- 4 The geometry of the seven elementary catastrophes
- 5 Applications in physics
- 6 Applications in the social sciences
- 7 Applications in biology
- 8 Morphogenesis
- 9 Conclusions
- Exercises
- Appendix. Elementary catastrophes of codimension ≦ 5
- References
- Author index
- Subject index
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- An Introduction to Catastrophe Theory , pp. 141Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1980