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Catastrophe Theory

Second Edition
By:Domencio Castrigiano; Sandra Hayes
Publisher:Taylor & Francis
Print ISBN:9780367314866
eText ISBN:9780429981432
Edition:2
Copyright:2004
Format:Reflowable

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Catastrophe Theory was introduced in the 1960s by the renowned Fields Medal mathematician René Thom as a part of the general theory of local singularities. Since then it has found applications across many areas, including biology, economics, and chemical kinetics. By investigating the phenomena of bifurcation and chaos, Catastrophe Theory proved to