Marcos Dajczer (born 19 November 1948, in

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) is an

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-born

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ian

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whose research concerns

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and

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. Dajczer obtained his Ph.D. from the

Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada The ''Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada'' (National Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics) is considered to be the foremost research and educational institution of Brazil in the area of mathematics. It is located in the cit ...

in 1980 under the supervision of

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. In 2006, he received Brazil's National Order of Scientific Merit honour for his work in mathematics. He was a

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in 1985.

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is named after his teacher and him.

Selected publications

*do Carmo, M.; Dajczer, M. (1983) .
Rotation hypersurfaces in spaces of constant curvature
, ''

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'', Volume 277, Number 2, pp. 685–709. *do Carmo, M.; Dajczer, M. (1982) .
Helicoidal surfaces with constant mean curvature
, '' Tohoku Mathematical Journal'' Second Series, Volume 34, Number 3, pp. 425–435. * ''Submanifolds and Isometric Immersions'' (1990, Mathematics Lecture Series)

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