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Richard S. Hamilton

1943 - 2024

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Richard Streit Hamilton (January 10, 1943 – September 29, 2024) was an American mathematician who served as the Davies Professor of Mathematics at Columbia University. Hamilton is known for contributions to geometric analysis and partial differential equations, and particularly for developing the theory of Ricci flow. Hamilton introduced the Ricci flow in 1982 and, over the next decades, he developed a network of results and ideas for using it to prove the Poincaré conjecture and geometrization conjecture from the field of geometric topology. Hamilton's work on the Ricci flow was recognized with an Oswald Veblen Prize, a Clay Research Award, a Leroy P. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard S. Hamilton has received more than 556,216 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Richard S. Hamilton is the 402nd most popular mathematician (down from 279th in 2019), the 3,190th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,318th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular American Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Richard S. Hamilton ranks 402 out of 1,004. Before him are Lars Hörmander, Pierre Alphonse Laurent, Richard Hamming, Benedetto Castelli, Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant, and Enrico Betti. After him are Hans Freudenthal, Bhāskara I, Philippe de La Hire, Abraham Fraenkel, Guido Fubini, and Al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Maṭar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Richard S. Hamilton ranks 224. Before him are Christopher Priest, Georgi Asparuhov, Jil Sander, Lauren Hutton, Terry Venables, and Shlomo Ben-Ami. After him are James Turrell, Marika Green, Stanley Fischer, Jimmy Wang Yu, Sani Abacha, and Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard S. Hamilton ranks 3,190 out of 20,380. Before him are Josh Duhamel (1972), Thomas Curtis (1873), Donald E. Westlake (1933), Zoe Saldana (1978), Frederick William Franz (1893), and Diane Ladd (1935). After him are Will Sampson (1933), Norman Finkelstein (1953), James Turrell (1943), Jelly Roll Morton (1890), Reggie Jackson (1946), and Divine (1945).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Richard S. Hamilton ranks 22. Before him are Stephen Smale (1930), Edward Kasner (1878), Sam Loyd (1841), Stephen Cole Kleene (1909), Raymond Smullyan (1919), and Richard Hamming (1915). After him are Jim Simons (1938), Whitfield Diffie (1944), William Thurston (1946), Richard E. Bellman (1920), Isadore Singer (1924), and Dennis Sullivan (1941).

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