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Book SynopsisThe description for this book, Singular Points of Complex Hypersurfaces. (AM-61), will be forthcoming.
Trade Review"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"
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
