Preface; 1 Preliminaries; 2 Puiseux' Theorem; 3 Resolutions; 4 Contact of two branches; 5 Topology of the singularity link; 6 The Milnor fibration; 7 Projective curves and their duals; 8 Combinatorics on a resolution tree; 9 Decomposition of the link complement and the Milnor fibre; 10 The monodromy and the Seifert form; 11 Ideals and clusters; References; Index
Summary
The study of singularities uses techniques from algebra, algebraic geometry, complex analysis and topology. This book introduces graduate students to this attractive area of mathematics. It is based on a MSc course taught by the author and also is an original synthesis, with new views and results not found elsewhere
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-367) and index
