Download or read book Normal Forms and Unfoldings for Local Dynamical Systems written by James Murdock and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-04-10 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most thorough treatment of normal forms currently existing in book form. There is a substantial gap between elementary treatments in textbooks and advanced research papers on normal forms. This book develops all the necessary theory 'from scratch' in just the form that is needed for the application to normal forms, with as little unnecessary terminology as possible.