Pengarang: V. I. Arnol d.

In this text, the author constructs the mathematical apparatus of classical mechanics from the beginning, examining all the basic problems in dynamics, including the theory of oscillations, the theor …

Singularity theory is growing very fast and many new results have been discovered since the Russian edition appeared: for instance the relation of the icosahedron to the problem of by- passing a gene …

From the reviews of the first edition:"… In general the articles … are well written in a style that enables one to grasp the ideas. The actual style is a readable mix of the important result …

This book takes a snapshot of the mathematical foundations of classical and quantum mechanics from a contemporary mathematical viewpoint. It covers a number of important recent developments in dynami …

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In the first volume of this survey (Arnol’d et al. (1988), hereafter cited as "EMS 6") we acquainted the reader with the basic concepts and methods of the theory of singularities of smooth …