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, a Brieskorn–Grothendieck resolution is a resolution conjectured by

Alexander Grothendieck Alexander Grothendieck, later Alexandre Grothendieck in French (; ; ; 28 March 1928 – 13 November 2014), was a German-born French mathematician who became the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry. His research ext ...

, that in particular gives a resolution of the universal deformation of a Kleinian singularity. announced the construction of this resolution, and published the details of Brieskorn's construction.

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* * Singularity theory {{algebraic-geometry-stub