Alexandru Dimca

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Alexandru Dimca is a Romanian mathematician, who works in algebraic geometry at University of Nice Sophia Antipolis.

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Education and career

Dimca competed in the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1970, 1971, and 1972, earning two bronze medals and one silver medal. [1] He obtained his PhD in 1981 from the University of Bucharest; his thesis "Stable mappings and singularities", was written under the direction of Gheorghe Galbură. [2] His Google Scholar h-index is 24.

Dimca is a distinguished mathematician in algebra, geometry and topology. [3] He has written three important books in this field: Sheaves in Topology, Singularities and Topology of Hypersurfaces and Topics on real and complex singularities.

Honors

He received a Doctor Honoris Causa of Ovidius University. [4]

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