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math.GT2016★ 31 cited
A Singular Mathematical Promenade
Etienne Ghys
This is neither an elementary introduction to singularity theory nor a specialized treatise containing many new theorems. The purpose of this little book is to invite the reader on…
math.AT2015
Signatures in algebra, topology and dynamics
Etienne Ghys, Andrew Ranicki
We survey the 19th century development of the signature of a quadratic form, and the applications in the 20th and 21st century to the topology of manifolds and dynamical systems. V…
math.DG2012
Osculating curves: around the Tait-Kneser Theorem
E. Ghys, S. Tabachnikov, V. Timorin
The Tait-Kneser theorem states that the osculating circles of a plane curve with monotonic curvature are pairwise disjoint and nested. We discuss this theorem and a number of its v…