In the early 1970’s Thom tried to use a gradient cell decomposition for the Milnor fiber of an isolated complex hypersurface singularity to prove the finiteness of the monodromy. It did not work but he noted the geometric significance of the polar curve associated to the singularity and a general hyperplane direction. I will describe some of the several uses of the polar curve to obtain algebraic, topological and Lipschitz-geometric information about isolated hypersurface singularities.
De Emmanuel Giroux
De Ana Rechtman
De Dennis Sullivan
De Sara Franceschelli
De Cherif Matta
De Jean Petitot
De Wolfgang Wildgen
De Bernard Teissier
De Victor Kleptsyn
De Joaquin Brum
De Emmanuel Militon
De Emmanuel Militon
De Stephen Coombes , Peter Liddle
De Victor Kleptsyn
De Albert Schwarz
