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Interesting nugget: the Swallowtail Catastrophe (https://mathworld.wolfram.com/SwallowtailCatastrophe.html https://mathworld.wolfram.com/SwallowtailCatastrophe.
by Jun8 2y ago
Interesting nugget: the Swallowtail Catastrophe (https://mathworld.wolfram.com/SwallowtailCatastrophe.html https://mathworld.wolfram.com/SwallowtailCatastrophe.html), one of the seven possible, was named by the blind French topologist Bernard Morin (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Morin https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Morin).
It was the topic of Salvador Dali’s last work (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swallow%27s_Tail https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swallow%27s_Tail)
- drcwpl 2y agoThe Swallowtail catastrophe is a beautiful work of art and theorem