The Theory of Singularities and its Applications

Part I. The Zoo of Singularities: 1. Morse theory of functions 2. Whitney theory of mappings 3. The Whitney-Cayley umbrella 4. The swallowtail 5. The discriminants of the reflection groups 6. The icosahedron and the obstacle by-passing problem 7. The unfurled swallowtail 8. The folded and open umbrellas 9. The singularities of projections and of the apparent contours Part II. Singularities of Bifurcation Diagrams: 10. Bifurcation diagrams of families of functions 11. Stability boundary 12. Ellipticity boundary and minima functions 13. Hyperbolicity boundary 14. Disconjugate equations, Tchebyshev system boundaries and Schubert singularities in flag manifolds 15. Fundamental system boundaries, projective curve flattenings and Schubert singularities in Grassmann manifolds.