12 Facts About Dan Burghelea

Dan Burghelea was born on July 30,1943 and is a Romanian-American mathematician, academic, and researcher.

Dan Burghelea is an Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Ohio State University.

Dan Burghelea was born in Ramnicu Valcea, Romania, in 1943, where he attended Alexandru Lahovari National College.

Dan Burghelea attended the University of Bucharest and graduated in mathematics in 1965, with a diploma-thesis in algebraic topology.

In 1972, Dan Burghelea was awarded the title of Doctor Docent in sciences by the University of Bucharest, making him the youngest recipient of the highest academic degree in Romania.

Dan Burghelea was promoted to Researcher in 1968, and to Senior Researcher in 1970.

Dan Burghelea left Romania for the United States in 1977, and in 1979 he joined the Ohio State University as a professor of mathematics.

Dan Burghelea retired in 2015, and remains associated with this university as an Emeritus Professor.

Dan Burghelea has significantly influenced the orientation of the geometry-topology research in Romania.

Dan Burghelea has worked in algebraic, differential, geometrical topology, differential and complex geometry, commutative algebra, global and geometric analysis, and applied topology.

Dan Burghelea was the first to generate concepts of semisimple degree of symmetry and BFK-gluing formula.

Dan Burghelea has authored several books including Groups of Automorphisms of Manifolds and New Topological Invariants for Real- and Angle-valued Maps: An Alternative to Morse-Novikov Theory.