Singular Algebraic Curves With an Appendix by Oleg Viro

“The book is very well written and sufficiently self-contained. Certainly, the reader is assumed to be familiar with the basics of algebraic geometry and singularity theory; however, most necessary results, even classical, are carefully stated and either proved in the book or supplied with abundant references. As a nice surprise, the book has an appendix on patchworking, which is the first English publication of the original text by Oleg Viro.” (Alex Degtyarev, Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung, Vol. 123, 2021)

“The book is written in a very clear style, many topics are illustrated by various nice pictures, visual diagrams, etc. … this book is comprehensible, interesting and useful for graduate and post-graduate students; it is also very valuable for advanced researchers, lecturers, and practicians working in singularity theory, algebraic geometry, topology, combinatorics, tropical geometry and in other fields of mathematics and its applications.” (Aleksandr G. Aleksandrov, zbMATH 1411.14001, 2019)