This introduction to the subject of mean curvature flow of hypersurfaces has a special emphasis on the analysis of singularities and provides a detailed discussion of the classical parametric approach mainly developed by R. Hamilton and G. Huisken.

detailed and complete introduction to the topic lecture focus: well suited for postgraduate courses summary of the state of the art and open problems Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Foreword.- Chapter 1. Definition and Short Time Existence.- Chapter 2. Evolution of Geometric Quantities.- Chapter 3. Monotonicity Formula and Type I Singularities.- Chapter 4. Type II Singularities.- Chapter 5. Conclusions and Research Directions.- Appendix A. Quasilinear Parabolic Equations on Manifolds.- Appendix B. Interior Estimates of Ecker and Huisken.- Appendix C. Hamilton's Maximum Principle for Tensors.- Appendix D. Hamilton's Matrix LiYauHarnack Inequality in Rn.- Appendix E. Abresch and Langer Classification of Homothetically Shrinking Closed Curves.- Appendix F. Important Results without Proof in the Book.- Bibliography.- Index.