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In 1955 the American mathematician Hassler Whitney published the article ‘Mappings of the plane into the plane’ laying the foundations for a new mathematical theory of singularities of smooth mappings.
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Arnold, V.I. (1984). Whitney’s Singularity Theory. In: Catastrophe Theory. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-96799-3_2
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