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The goals of this paper are (1) to outline in general terms the present status of work on singularities, and (2) to discuss some of the outstanding problems in the subject and to indicate possible lines of attack on these problems. Our point of view will he an optimistic one: we shall concentrate more on what one would like to have than on what one is likely to get in the near future.
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Geroch, R. (1970). Singularities. In: Carmeli, M., Fickler, S.I., Witten, L. (eds) Relativity. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0721-1_14
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