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- From: andrew@rentec.com (Andrew Mullhaupt)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: What is catastrophe theory?
- Message-ID: <1332@kepler1.rentec.com>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 22:22:43 GMT
- References: <1992Nov11.180552.14797@progress.com>
- Organization: Renaissance Technologies Corp., Setauket, NY.
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- In article <1992Nov11.180552.14797@progress.com> neil@progress.COM (Neil Galarneau) writes:
- >I have heard of something called catastrophe theory.
- >
- >I am looking for recommendations on articles/books (in English!) readable by a
- >non-math major.
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- Please read as much as possible of V. I. Arnold's book: _Catastrophe Theory_.
- The introduction should be accessible to the mathematically naive. Read this
- _first_ before anything else on the subject.
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- Later,
- Andrew Mullhaupt
-