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Christopher Zeeman
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Sir Erik Christopher Zeeman FRS was a British mathematician known for his work in geometric topology and singularity theory.
Zeeman (in foreground) in 1980
Zeeman (in foreground) in 1980
Zeeman at the Warwick Mathematics Institute in December 2009
Zeeman at the Warwick Mathematics Institute in December 2009
Catastrophe theory
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In mathematics, catastrophe theory is a branch of bifurcation theory in the study of dynamical systems; it is also a particular special case of more general singularity theory in geometry.
Christopher Zeeman
…Lecturer in Mathematics at Trinity College Dublin. Zeeman is known among the wider scientific public for his contribution to, and spreading awareness of catastrophe theory, which was due initially to another topologist, René Thom, and for his Christmas lectures about mathematics on television in 1978. He was especially…
Swallowtail catastrophe surface
Swallowtail catastrophe surface
The edge of the rainbow is a fold catastrophe, and so it has a diffraction pattern described by the Airy function. This is generic and stable for any
The edge of the rainbow is a fold catastrophe, and so it has a diffraction pattern described by the Airy function. This is generic and stable for any shape of the water droplet.