Everything about Singularity studies

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Singularity studiesA 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: SOCRATES (Vol 3, No 2 (2015)The most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Read the landmark paper: Analysis of the generic singularity studies by Belinskii, Khalatnikov, and LifschitzCited 82 times
4. Go sideways: SingularitarianismA closely related topic
5. Go sideways: Technological singularityA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Analysis of the generic singularity studies by Belinskii, Khalatnikov, and Lifschitz

  John D. Barrow, Frank J. Tipler · 1979 · Physics Reports · 82 citations

• Gradational Thresholds and Landform Singularity: Significance for Quaternary Studies

  Ze'ev B. Begin, Stanley A. Schumm · 1984 · Quaternary Research · 45 citations

• Studies on a damped differential equation with repulsive singularity

  Zhibo Cheng, Jingli Ren · 2012 · Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences · 15 citations

• Generic singularity studies revisited

  John D. Barrow, Frank J. Tipler · 1981 · Physics Letters A · 10 citations

• Singularity analysis in nonlinear biomathematical models: Two case studies

  E. Meletlidou, P.G.L. Leach · 2007 · Chaos, Solitons & Fractals · 5 citations

• Studies on a 2nth-order p-Laplacian differential equation with singularity

  Yun Xin, Shan Zhao · 2016 · Advances in Difference Equations · 3 citations

• Discussion of “Gradational Thresholds and Landform Singularity: Significance for Quaternary Studies”

  G. Robert Brakenridge · 1985 · Quaternary Research · 2 citations

• Optical studies of modulation-doped V-groove quantum wires: Fermi-edge singularity

  D.Y. Oberli, A. Rudra, E. Kapon · 2001 · Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures · 2 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• SOCRATES (Vol 3, No 2 (2015) · 2015

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