In April, 1975, I organised a conference at the Battelle Research Center, Seattle, Washington on the theme "Structural stability, catastrophe theory and their a

The new edition of this non-mathematical review of catastrophe theory contains updated results and many new or expanded topics including delayed loss of stabili

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