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Inspired by the work of Thom and Arnol'd on singularity theory, such topics as umbilics, ridges and subparabolic lines, which are rarely treated in elementary courses on differential geometry, are considered in this volume.Porteous, I. R. is the author of 'Geometric Differentiation For the Intelligence of Curves and Surfaces', published 2001 under ISBN 9780521002646 and ISBN 0521002648.
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