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Contents: Préface (Marc Chaperon, Alain Chenciner, Marie-Françoise Roy) (3); René Thom, Exposé introductif [Introductory essay] (7--22); René Thom, Spectre bord d'un centre obscur [Boundary spectrum of a dark center] (23--30); Biographical details [Indications biographiques] (33--36); Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, René Thom, ``mathématicien et apprenti philosophe [René Thom, ``mathematician and philospher apprentice] (39--41); Dominique Cerveau, Lettres perdues... Mémoires défaillantes... Émotions retrouvées [Lost letters, faltering memories, rediscovered emotions] (43); Ivar Ekeland, Hommage à René Thom [Homage to René Thom] (45--49); Misha Gromov, Thom's ideas: the past and the future (51--54); Tzee-Char Kuo, René Thom and some of his ideas (55--58); Santiago López de Medrano, Catastrophes et prédictions [Catastrophes and predictions] (59--64); Bernard Malgrange, René Thom: quelques souvenirs [René Thom: some memories] (65--71); John N. Mather, Thom's influence on the theory of singularities of mappings (73--83); Mauricio M. Peixoto, Some recollections of René Thom (85--88); Jean Petitot, Théorie des singularités et équations de diffusion: illustration graphique d'un exemple [Singularity theory and diffusion equations: graphical illustration of an example] (89--107); Frédéric Pham, Quelques souvenirs sur René Thom [Some memories of René Thom] (109--118); Michèle\ Porte, ``Quand on sait où l'on va, on va rarement très loin, ou Quelques aventures dans la création des Œuvres complètes de René Thom [``When you know where you're going, you rarely go very far, or Some adventures in the creation of René Thom's Complete works] (119--123); Dennis Sullivan, René Thom's work on geometric homology and bordism (125--134); David Trotman, Quelques souvenirs de René Thom [Some memories of René Thom] (135--137); Wen-tsun Wu , Inoubliables souvenirs de René Thom [Unforgettable memories of René Thom] (139--141). The articles of this volume will not be indexed individually.











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