Singularities-Sapporo 1998 (Hardcover)

This volume presents the proceedings of a meeting held in Sapporo (Japan) at Hokkaido University on singularities and arrangements of hyperplanes. Participants from the international community presented their research on singularities of curves, characteristic classes of singular varieties, $D$-modules, motives, resolution of singularities, Milnor fibration, Enriques diagrams, Hilbert schemes, and log-canonical singularities.