Publisher's Synopsis
This monograph gives a coherent account of the theory of isolated singularities of complete intersections. One encounters such singularities often as the central fibres of analytic map-germs; that is why such map-germs (deformations) receive here a great deal of attention. The work treats both the topological side—including vanishing cycles and monodromy—and the analytic side—including properties of the discriminants of deformations—and explores the connections between them. It ends with a proof that the discriminant of the semi-universal deformation of an A–D–E singularity is isomorphic to the discriminant of the associated Coxeter group.
