Download or read book Normal Two-Dimensional Singularities. (AM-71), Volume 71 written by Henry B. Laufer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey, thorough and timely, of the singularities of two-dimensional normal complex analytic varieties, the volume summarizes the results obtained since Hirzebruch's thesis (1953) and presents new contributions. First, the singularity is resolved and shown to be classified by its resolution; then, resolutions are classed by the use of spaces with nilpotents; finally, the spaces with nilpotents are determined by means of the local ring structure of the singularity.