The Arnoldfest: Proceedings of a Conference in Honour of V.I. Arnold for His Sixtieth Birthday

by Vladimir I. Arnold (Editor), Edward Bierstone

Aside from the three lectures presented by mathematician Arnold at the conference in his honor, only a few of the 27 papers presented here have any direct relation to the program of the June 1997 conference. However, they do appear to be broadly focused upon Arnold's areas of singularity theory, the theory of curves, symmetry groups, dynamical systems, and mechanics. Some specific topics include geometry and control of three wave interactions, singularity theory and symplectic topology, and pseudoholomorphic curves and dynamics. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

555 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Vladimir Igorevich Arnold (alternative spelling Arnol'd, Russian: Влади́мир И́горевич Арно́льд, 12 June 1937 – 3 June 2010)[1] was a Soviet and Russian mathematician. While he is best known for the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem regarding the stability of integrable systems, he made important contributions in several areas including dynamical systems theory, catastrophe theory, topology, algebraic geometry, classical mechanics and singularity theory, including posing the ADE classification problem, since his first main result—the partial solution of Hilbert's thirteenth problem in 1957 at the age of 19.