Seeing - the mathematical viewpoint

DOI10.1007/BF03026731MaRDI QIDQ799996zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors James William Bruce

Publication date 1984

Published in The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03026731

zbMATH Keywords

contours of smooth surfacesmodulisingularity theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Differentiable maps on manifolds (58C25) Theory of singularities and catastrophe theory (58K99)

Review text

A short introduction to singularity theory as it applies to apparent shapes of contours of smooth surfaces, with an introduction to moduli.

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• Singular viewpoint locus at goose series singularities
• Perceiving the infinite and the infinitesimal world: unveiling and optical diagrams in mathematics

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