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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.

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@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"