History of Singular and its relation to Zariski's multiplicty conjecture
Algebraic Geometry
2021-03-02 v1 History and Overview
Abstract
We give a brief historical overview of the development of the Computer Algebra System SINGULAR: why it came about and how the development was related to the attempt to refute Zariski's multiplicity conjecture.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2103.00525,
title = {History of Singular and its relation to Zariski's multiplicty conjecture},
author = {Gert-Martin Greuel and Gerhard Pfister},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.00525},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
7 pages, 3 pictures. To be published as an appendix to the article "Topological Equisingularity: Old Problems From a new Perspective" by J. Fernandez De Bobadilla, in "Handbook of Geometry and Topology of Singularities II"