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

By John Milnor

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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• Language: English
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Release date: Mar 2, 2016
• ISBN: 9781400881819

John Milnor

John Milnor is Professor of Mathematics and Co-Director of the Institute for Mathematical Sciences at SUNY, Stony Brook. He is the author of Topology from the Differential Viewpoint, Singular Points of Complex Hypersurfaces, Morse Theory, Introduction to Algebraic K-Theory, Characteristic Classes (with James Stasheff), and Lectures on the H-Cobordism Theorem (Princeton).

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