PUBLICATIONS

Books

M A H MacCallum and F J Wright:
Algebraic Computing with REDUCE.  Oxford University Press, 1991, 300pp.

Journal papers

Solo papers

F J Wright:
The Stokes set of the cusp diffraction catastrophe.  J. Phys. A13, 1980, pp 2913–2928.

F J Wright:
Singularities of plane curves which occur as singular sections of the bifurcation sets of the cuspoid catastrophes.  J. Phys. A14, 1981, pp 1587–1599.

F J Wright:
On velocity-dependent force fields in which all orbits are planar.  Eur. J. Phys. 9, 1988, pp 222–4.

Joint papers

M V Berry, J F Nye and F J Wright:
The elliptic umbilic diffraction catastrophe.  Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond A291, 1979, pp 453–484.

M V Berry and F J Wright:
Phase-space projection identities for diffraction catastrophes.  J. Phys. A13, 1980, pp 149–160.

C Upstill, F J Wright, J V Hajnal and R H Templer:
The double-cusp unfolding of the ⁰X₉ diffraction catastrophe.  Optica Acta 29(12), 1982, pp 1651–1676.

F J Wright, G Dangelmayr and D Lang:
Singular coordinate sections of the conic umbilic catastrophes.  J. Phys. A15, 1982, pp 3057–3071.

F J Wright and J F Nye:
Dislocations in diffraction patterns: continuous waves and pulses.  Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A305, 1982, pp 339–382.

G Dangelmayr and F J Wright:
On the validity of the paraxial eikonal in catastrophe optics.  J. Phys. A17, 1984, pp 99–108.

F J Wright and M V Berry:
Wavefront dislocations in the soundfield of a pulsed circular piston radiator.  J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 75, 1984, pp 733–748.

F J Wright and G Dangelmayr:
Partial stability of catastrophe sections and its application to the cuspoid and conic umbilics.  J. Phys. A17, 1984, pp 1975–1991.

F J Wright and G Dangelmayr:
On the exact reduction of a univariate catastrophe to normal form.  J. Phys. A18, 1985, pp 749–64.

F J Wright and G Dangelmayr:
Explicit iterative algorithms to reduce a univariate catastrophe to normal form.
Computing 35, 1985, pp 73–83.

F J Wright and G Dangelmayr:
Caustics and diffraction from a line source. Optica Acta 32, 1985, pp 441–462.

G Dangelmayr and F J Wright:
Geometrical inversion for a scattering curve.  Inverse Problems 2, 1986, pp 293–305.

R G Cowell and F J Wright:
Truncation criteria and algorithm for the reduction to normal form of catastrophe unfoldings I: Singularities with zero rank.  Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A424, 1989, pp 327–342.

R G Cowell and F J Wright:
Truncation criteria and algorithm for the reduction to normal form of catastrophe unfoldings II: Singularities with non-zero rank.  Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A424, 1989, pp 343–356.

Conference papers

F J Wright:
Wavefront dislocations and their analysis using catastrophe theory.  Structural Stability in Physics; edited by W Güttinger and H Eickemeier.  Berlin: Springer, 1979, pp 141–156.

G Dangelmayr and F J Wright:
Singularities in quasi-geometrical imaging.  Inverse Methods in Electromagnetic Imaging, Part 1, edited by W-M Boerner et al.  NATO ASI Series C 143.  Dordrecht, Holland: Reidel, 1985, pp 461–472.

W Güttinger and F J Wright:
Topological approach to inverse scattering in remote sensing.  Inverse Methods in Electromagnetic Imaging, Part 1, edited by W-M Boerner et al.  NATO ASI Series C 143.  Dordrecht, Holland: Reidel, 1985, pp 65–76.

K Millington and F J Wright:
Algebraic computations in elementary catastrophe theory.  EUROCAL 85, Vol. 2; edited by B F Caviness.  Lecture Notes in Computer Science 204.  Berlin: Springer, 1985, pp 116–125.

F J Wright:
Dislocations in wave trains, with special reference to the information they carry about microstructure.  Polymer NDE, edited by K H G Ashbee.  Lancaster PA, USA: Technomic, 1986, pp 3–18.

F J Wright and R G Cowell:
Computer Algebraic Tools For Applications of Catastrophe Theory.  The Physics of Structure Formation: Theory and Simulation, edited by W Güttinger and G Dangelmayr.  Berlin: Springer, 1987, pp 402–415.

R G Cowell and F J Wright:
CATFACT: Computer Algebraic Tools For Applications of Catastrophe Theory.  Proc. EUROCAL 87.  Lecture Notes in Computer Science.  Berlin: Springer, 1989, pp 72–81.

Y-K Man and F J Wright:
Fast Polynomial Dispersion Computation and its Application to Indefinite Summation.
Proc. ISSAC 94, ACM Press, 1994, pp 175–180.

Review articles

F J Wright:
Caustics in seismology. Nature 319, 1986, pp 720–1.

F J Wright:
Review of “Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: Geometrical Methods for Engineers and Scientists” by JMT Thomson and HB Stewart. Eur. J. Phys. 8, 1987, p 69.

F J Wright:
Review of “MuMATH: A Microcomputer Algebra System” by C Wooff and D Hodgkinson.  Eur. J. Phys. 9, 1988, p 240.

F J Wright:
Catastrophe Optics: Spectacles in the rain.  Physics Bulletin 39, 1988, pp 313–6.

F J Wright:
Review of “Practical Computing for Experimental Scientists” by John D Beasley. Physics Education, 1989.

Other publications

F J Wright:
Concept of absolute information.  Letter in Computer Weekly.  2^nd April 1981.

F J Wright:
The road-crossing catastrophe – a light-hearted catastrophe model.  The Mathematical Intelligencer 4(2), 1982, pp 103–4.

F J Wright:
Letter in The Mathematical Intelligencer 6(3), 1984, p 6.

F J Wright:
Plea for paginating output. ix-Magazine 1(4), 1985, p 4.

F J Wright:
“BASIC versus APL” and “Computer algebra” in News and events, Eur. J. Phys. 8, 1987, pp 220–224.

F J Wright:
“Teaching with Computer Algebra: the QMC experience” in Proc. Undergraduate Mathematics Teaching Conference, University of Nottingham, Sept. 1988, edited by David Towers.  Shell Centre for Mathematical Education, ISBN 0 906126 58 4, 1989, pp 3–15.

G Toulouse and F J Wright:
“Catastrophe Theory” in Encyclopedia of Physics, second edition, edited by Rita G Lerner and George L Trigg, VCH Publishers, Inc, New York, 1991, pp 122–126.