Bifurcations and catastrophes. Geometry of solutions to nonlinear problems. Transl. from the French by David Chillingworth (Q1960739)

For the French original (Paris, Ellipses 1989) see Zbl 0907.58002. This book is an introduction to the main ideas of the modern global analysis. It is based on the author's lecture course at the École Polytechnique (Paris). Contents: 1. Local Inversion. 2. Submanifolds. 3. Transversality Theorems. 4. Classification of Differentiable Functions. 5. Catastrophe Theory. 6. Vector Fields. 7. Linear Vector Fields. 8. Singular Points of Vector Fields. 9. Closed Orbits -- Structural Stability. 10. Bifurcations of Phase Portraits. The style of the book is simultaneously very clear and deep. The book will be useful both for the beginners and for specialists in nonlinear analysis, dynamical systems, and bifurcation theory since it not only describes the language, basic ideas, and main constructions of global analysis but also contains very interesting historical and philosophical comments.