J. W. Bruce
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, James William "Bill" Bruce is a British mathematician whose main contributions are in singularity theory and related areas. Mathematical career Bill completed his PhD thesis, titled Some Natural Whitney Stratifications, in 1978 at the University of Liverpool under the supervision of C T C Wall. Following domestic and international appointments, he was appointed to a chair in pure mathematics at the University of Liverpool in 1990.
J. W. Bruce's Published Works
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Published Works
- Searching for land tenure security in Africa (1994) (560)
- Curves and Singularities (1986) (528)
- Curves and singularities : a geometrical introduction to singularity theory (1992) (333)
- On the Classification of Cubic Surfaces (1979) (216)
- Whose trees?: proprietary dimensions of forestry (1988) (209)
- Land tenure issues in project design and strategies for agricultural development in Sub-Saharan Africa (1986) (127)
- Review Of Tenure Terminology (1998) (126)
- STRATIFIED MORSE THEORY (Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete. (3) 14) (1989) (124)
- ISOLATED SINGULAR POINTS ON COMPLETE INTERSECTIONS (London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series, 77) (1985) (113)
- Security of tenure and land productivity in Kenya. (1994) (107)
- On binary differential equations and umbilics (1989) (89)
- Complete transversals and the classification of singularities (1997) (89)
- Symmetry sets (1985) (86)
- On binary differential equations (1995) (86)
- Critical points of functions on analytic varieties (1988) (80)
- Land, security of tenure, and productivity in Ghana. (1994) (79)
- Simple Singularities of Mappings C, 0 → C2, 0 (1982) (78)
- Insurance and other financial services (2001) (76)
- Determinacy and unipotency (1987) (76)
- Growth, motion and 1-parameter families of symmetry sets (1986) (70)
- Community forestry: rapid appraisal of tree and land tenure. (1989) (65)
- Country profiles of land tenure : Africa, 1996 (1998) (63)
- Legal bases for the management of forest resources as common property (1999) (62)
- Indigenous land use systems and investments in soil fertility in Burkina Faso. (1994) (61)
- Structures and Stratagems: Making Decentralization of Authority over Land in Africa Cost-Effective (2009) (59)
- Tenure security and agricultural production under land scarcity: the case of Rwanda. (1994) (59)
- After the derg : an assessment of rural land tenure issues in Ethiopia (1994) (58)
- An Experience of Ulcerative Colitis (1970) (54)
- "Crossing the river while feeling the rocks": incremental land reform and its impact on rural welfare in China. (2009) (51)
- Families of surfaces: Height functions, Gauss maps and duals (1995) (50)
- The duals of generic hypersurfaces (1981) (49)
- On caustics of plane curves (1981) (49)
- Security of Tenure and Land Registration in Africa: Literature Review and Synthesis (1989) (42)
- On families of symmetric matrices (2003) (41)
- Functions on a crosscap (1998) (41)
- Our Emerging Understanding of the Causes of Land Use and Cover Change (2001) (40)
- Projections of Surfaces with Boundary (1990) (39)
- Functions on Discriminants (1984) (38)
- A note on first order differential equations of degree greater than one and wavefront evolution (1984) (36)
- Bifurcations of implicit differential equations (2000) (36)
- On Families of Square Matrices (2004) (35)
- Generic 1-parameter families of binary differential equations of Morse type (1996) (35)
- Spontaneous rupture of the stomach (1957) (34)
- Euler Characteristics of Real Varieties (1990) (34)
- A Stratification of the Space of Plane Quartic Curves (1981) (34)
- Vector Fields on Discriminants and Bifurcation Varieties (1985) (31)
- Families of surfaces: focal sets, ridges and umbilics (1999) (31)
- On the Multiplicity of Implicit Differential Equations (1998) (29)
- Outlines and Their Duals (1985) (28)
- Wavefronts and parallels in Euclidean space (1983) (28)
- Tenures in Transition, Tenures in Conflict: Examples from the Zimbabwe Social Forest1 (2010) (27)
- A Really Trivial Proof of the Lucas-Lehmer Test (1993) (27)
- On singularities, envelopes and elementary differential geometry (1981) (26)
- Implicit Differential Equations From the Singularity Theory Viewpoint (1996) (25)
- Families of surfaces: height functions and projections to planes (1998) (25)
- Duality and implicit differential equations (2000) (25)
- What is an envelope? (1981) (24)
- Seeing—the mathematical viewpoint (1984) (24)
- Sectional Singularities and Geometry of Families of Planar Quadratic Forms (2002) (22)
- On caustics by reflexion (1982) (22)
- Surfaces in R4 and Duality (1998) (21)
- Agricultural land tenure in Zambia: perspectives, problems and opportunities (1982) (19)
- INTRODUCTION TO ALGEBRAIC CURVES (Translations of Mathematical Monographs 76) (1990) (18)
- Duality and orthogonal projections of curves and surfaces in 3-space (1991) (18)
- Generic Geometry, Transversality and Projections (1994) (16)
- An Upper Bound for the Number of Singularities on a Projective Hypersurface (1981) (16)
- A stratification of the space of cubic surfaces (1980) (15)
- Discriminants and liftable vector fields (1994) (15)
- Zero curves of families of curve congruences (2002) (14)
- Generic Projections of Stable Mappings (2000) (14)
- Land reform planning and indigenous communal tenures : a case study of the tenure Chiguraf-Gwoses in Tigray, Ethiopia (1976) (14)
- Return of land in post-conflict Rwanda: International standards, improvisation, and the role of international humanitarian organizations (2013) (13)
- You've got to know who controls the land and trees people use: gender, tenure and the environment (1991) (13)
- Projections and reflections of generic surfaces in $\mathsf{R}^3$ (1984) (12)
- Caustics through the looking glass (1984) (12)
- of 1-parameter families of map-germs ℝ³,0 -> ℝ³,0 with applications to condensation problems (1986) (12)
- Classifications in Singularity Theory and Their Applications (2001) (11)
- Extrema of principal curvature and symmetry (1996) (11)
- A note on determinacy (1992) (11)
- Microcomputers and Mathematics (1990) (11)
- Geometry of singular sets (1989) (10)
- On Left Equivalence of Map Germs (1984) (10)
- SOURCE GENERICITY OF CAUSTICS BY REFLEXION IN THE PLANE (1982) (10)
- REGULAR SOLIDS AND ISOLATED SINGULARITIES (Vieweg Advanced Lectures in Mathematics) (1987) (10)
- ONE-PARAMETER FAMILIES OF CAUSTICS BY REFLEXION IN THE PLANE (1984) (10)
- Smooth stable maps of discriminant varieties (1985) (9)
- Images and varieties (1996) (9)
- On transversality (1986) (9)
- Generic Curves and Surfaces II (1981) (9)
- 7. International standards, improvisation and the role of international humanitarian organizations in the return of land in post-conflict Rwanda (2009) (9)
- Family land tenure and agricultural development in St. Lucia (1983) (8)
- Curves and singularities: More on unfoldings (1992) (8)
- Isotopies of generic plane curves (1983) (8)
- Source genericity of caustics by reflexion in R3 (1982) (7)
- CONCEPTOS SOBRE TENENCIA DE LA TIERRA (2000) (7)
- Motion pictures: an application of singularity theory (1984) (6)
- Canonical stratifications of functions: the simple singularities (1980) (6)
- Lines, circles, focal and symmetry sets (1995) (6)
- Evolving Land Rights, Policy and Tenure in Africa, edited by Camilla Toulmin and Julian Quan. DFID Issues Series. London: IIED and Natural Resources Institute, 2000. 324 pp. £12.50 paperback. ISBN 1‐899825‐51‐7 (paperback) (2002) (5)
- Unsupervised Machine Learning Techniques for Detecting PLC Process Control Anomalies (2022) (5)
- Lines, surfaces and duality (1992) (5)
- Envelopes, duality and contact structures (1983) (5)
- On real simple singularities (1980) (5)
- On the Degree of Determinacy of Smooth Functions (1981) (4)
- Anomaly Detection for a Water Treatment System Based on One-Class Neural Network (2022) (4)
- Generic space curves and secants (1984) (3)
- Frame and direction mappings for surfaces in ℝ3 (2019) (3)
- Contemporary uses of tree tenure. (1999) (3)
- A validated enantioselective LC-MS/MS assay for quantification of a major chiral metabolite of an achiral 11-β-hydroxysteroid-dehydrogenase 1 inhibitor in human plasma: Application to a clinical pharmacokinetic study. (2016) (3)
- Two-Parameter Families of Plane Caustics by Reflexion (1985) (3)
- On the geometry of caustics (1997) (3)
- On complex projective hypersurfaces (1981) (3)
- Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series (2016) (2)
- A Research Agenda for Land and Resource Governance at USAID (2020) (2)
- Residential Land Tenure and Housing Development in the Major Villages of Botswana (1988) (2)
- Stratifying jet spaces – some special cases (1979) (2)
- Dupin indicatrices, families of curve congruences and the zero curves (2002) (2)
- An elementary approach to generic properties of plane curves (1984) (2)
- Caustics in Extended Euclidean Space (1984) (2)
- HEAVY GOING (1959) (2)
- Public Libraries as Engines of Democracy: A research and pedagogical case study on design for re-entry (2019) (2)
- Relative efficiency of passive dust samplers: Progress towards coarse dust dispersion modelling (2021) (2)
- Envelopes and characteristics (1986) (2)
- Stable mappings of discriminant varieties (1988) (2)
- Distance-Genericity for Real Algebraic Hypersurfaces (1984) (2)
- Focal Sets in Certain Riemannian Manifolds (1984) (2)
- “This Town Ain’t Big Enough For The Both Of Us”: Two Engineering Educator Careers, One Department (2005) (2)
- On the canonical stratification of complex analytical functions (1980) (2)
- Better Old Swan animation on indoor air pollution (2020) (1)
- Curves and singularities: Introductory example: a gravitational catastrophe machine (1992) (1)
- Genericity of caustics by reflexion (1983) (1)
- Microcomputers and Mathematics: Numbers: Part 1 (1990) (1)
- Unsupervised Ensemble Methods for Anomaly Detection in PLC-based Process Control (2023) (1)
- Self intersections of wavefront evolution (1983) (1)
- 26-Pair Fiber Cable Study. (1976) (1)
- On generic hypersurfaces in ℝn (1981) (1)
- Caustics by reflexion in the extended plane (1983) (1)
- Women in Asian Cities: Policies, Public Services, and Research (2019) (1)
- Numbers: Part 2 (1990) (1)
- 2019 Annual and Perennial Forage System Impact on Soil Health and Corn Silage Yield (2020) (1)
- ARTICULATING VOICES FROM THE COMMONS: INTERPRETATION, TRANSLATION & FACILITATION (1996) (1)
- Curves and singularities: Regular values and smooth manifolds (1992) (1)
- Counting singularities (1982) (1)
- Land for Shared Societies (2013) (0)
- Curves and singularities: Unfoldings (1992) (0)
- Isolated Singular Points of Complex Hypersurfaces (1975) (0)
- Indigenous Control of Tropical Rain Forest Reserves (2002) (0)
- Generic properties of curves (1992) (0)
- Implicit differential equations from the singularity viewpoint (1996) (0)
- SP-0352 Targeting mitochondrial activity with metformin to reduce tumor hypoxia and increase radiation response in non-diabetic patients: Importance of patient selection (2022) (0)
- Families of spheres and circles (1988) (0)
- M. Reid Undergraduate algebraic geometry (London Mathematical Society Student Texts 12, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1988), viii + 129 pp, hard covers: 0 521 35559 1, £20; paper: 0 521 35662 8, £7.50. (1989) (0)
- Oral History Interview with John W. Bruce, December 4, 1982 (1982) (0)
- On the fundamental group of the complement of projective hypersurfaces (1981) (0)
- Natural re s o u rc e management land policy (2002) (0)
- Sur les caustics par reflection (1980) (0)
- GMJ volume 29 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1987) (0)
- Curves and singularities: Appendix Null sets and Sard's theorem (1992) (0)
- A Note on Peter Giblin (2015) (0)
- Analysis Of Ultra Compact Ionized Hydrogen Regions Within The Northern Half Of The Galactic Disk (2011) (0)
- Curves and singularities: Transversality (1992) (0)
- Design + Social Impact (2019) (0)
- Families of surfaces in 'IR POT. 4' (1999) (0)
- Iteration of real functions (1990) (0)
- Microcomputers and mathematics / J.W. Bruce, P.J. Giblin, P.J. Rippon (1990) (0)
- Las repercusiones de la diversidad de leyes hipotecarias y de otros aspectos del entorno jurídico sobre el flujo de dinero hacia los préstamos hipotecarios interestatales: las lecciones que pueden extraerse de la experiencia estadounidense (1993) (0)
- IN A MULTI-FUNCTIONAL SYSTEM (2011) (0)
- Curves and singularities: References (1992) (0)
- Singular points, several variables, generic surfaces (1992) (0)
- Singularity Theory: Proceedings of the European Singularities Conference, August 1996, Liverpool (1999) (0)
- Microcomputers and Mathematics: Curves: Part 2 (1990) (0)
- The duals of generic space curves and complete intersections (1983) (0)
- Curves and singularities: Curves, and functions on them (1992) (0)
- Study on random order testing (2018) (0)
- UNCERTAIN EXPEDITIONS (0)
- Note on programs and machines (1990) (0)
- Curves and singularities: Unfoldings: applications (1992) (0)
- Book Review: Dynamical systems} VIII ({\it singularity theory} II), {\it classification and applications (1994) (0)
- The Poetical Works Of William Cowper: In Three Volumes... (2012) (0)
- Curves and singularities: More about functions (1992) (0)
- The Negro in Poetry (1923) (2021) (0)
- A Zeuthen Segre formula for even dimensional submanifolds of real projective space (1983) (0)
- Curves: Part 1 (1990) (0)
- Families of spheres (1988) (0)
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