Singular Points of Complex Hypersurfaces (AM-61), Volume 61

by John Milnor

Overview

Fields Medal–winning mathematician John Milnor’s classic treatment of singular points of complex hypersurfaces

One of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century, John Milnor has made fundamental discoveries in diverse areas of mathematics, from topology and dynamical systems to algebraic K-theory. He is renowned as a master of mathematical exposition and his many books have become standard references in the field. Singular Points of Complex Hypersurfaces provides an incisive and authoritative study of the local behavior of a complex hypersurface V in Euclidean space at a singularity Z0.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691080659
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	01/21/1969
Series:	Annals of Mathematics Studies , #61
Pages:	130
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

John Milnor is professor of mathematics and codirector of the Institute for Mathematical Sciences at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. Winner of the Fields Medal, he is the author of several books, including Lectures on the H-Cobordism Theorem (Princeton).

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter, pg. i
• PREFACE, pg. vii
• CONTENTS, pg. ix
• §1. INTRODUCTION, pg. 1
• §2. ELEMENTARY FACTS ABOUT REAL OR COMPLEX ALGEBRAIC SETS, pg. 9
• §3. THE CURVE SELECTION LEMMA, pg. 25
• §4. THE FIBRATION THEOREM, pg. 33
• §5. THE TOPOLOGY OF THE FIBERAND OF K, pg. 45
• §6. THE CASE OF AN ISOLATED CRITICAL POINT, pg. 55
• §7. THE MIDDLE BETTI NUMBER OF THE FIBER, pg. 59
• §8. IS K A TOPOLOGICAL SPHERE ?, pg. 65
• §9. BRIESKORN VARIETIES AND WEIGHTED HOMOGENEOUS POLYNOMIALS, pg. 71
• § 10. THE CLASSICAL CASE: CURVES IN C2, pg. 81
• §11. A FIBRATION THEOREM FOR REAL SINGULARITIES, pg. 97
• APPENDIX A. WHITNEY’S FINITENESS THEOREM FOR ALGEBRAIC SETS, pg. 105
• APPENDIX B. THE MULTIPLICITY OF AN ISOLATED SOLUTION OF ANALYTIC EQUATIONS, pg. 111
• BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 117

Editorial Reviews

John Milnor, Winner of the 2011 Abel Prize from the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

John Willard Milnor, Winner of the 2011 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement, American Mathematical Society

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