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It is just 20 years since the theory of the discriminant of a map began to be investigated as a topic in its own right. The year is clearly defined by important papers [2, 36, 29] from different authors. Numerous papers have appeared since then in which this topic plays an important role.
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du Plessis, A.A., Wall, C.T.C. (1998). Discriminants and Vector Fields. In: Arnold, V.I., Greuel, GM., Steenbrink, J.H.M. (eds) Singularities. Progress in Mathematics, vol 162. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8770-0_7
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