Alexandru Dimca is a

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, who works in algebraic geometry at

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Education and career

Dimca competed in the

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in 1970, 1971, and 1972, earning two bronze medals and one silver medal. He obtained his PhD in 1981 from the

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; his thesis "Stable mappings and singularities", was written under the direction of Gheorghe Galbură. His

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is 24. Dimca is a distinguished mathematician in algebra, geometry and topology. 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

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of Ovidius University.

Books

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, Alexandru Dimca, ''Filtrations de Hodge et par l'ordre du pôle pour les hypersurfaces singulières'', 1990.Filtrations de Hodge et par l'ordre du pôle pour les hypersurfaces singulières
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