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An introduction to the results behind Thom’s theorem, considered as algorithms for the exact use for particular systems of finite Taylor expansions without the hypothesis of analyticity.
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Poston, T. (1976). The Computational Rules of Catastrophe Theory. In: Billeter, E., Cuénod, M., Klaczko, S. (eds) Overlapping Tendencies in Operations Research Systems Theory and Cybernetics. Interdisciplinary Systems Research / Interdisziplinäre Systemforschung. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-5793-2_33
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