• 1. Gauss–Manin connection; 2. Limit mixed Hodge structure on the vanishing cohomology of an isolated hypersurface singularity; 3. The period map of a m-constant deformation of an isolated hypersurface singularity associated to Brieskorn lattices and mixed Hodge structures.

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