Richard Hamilton (professor)
- Richard Hamilton (professor)
Richard Streit Hamilton (born 1943) is professor of mathematics at Columbia University.
He received his Ph.D. in 1966 from Princeton University. Robert Gunning supervised his thesis. Hamilton has taught at UC Irvine, UC San Diego, Cornell University, and Columbia University.
Hamilton is best known for having discovered the Ricci flow, which Grigori Perelman applied in his proof of the Thurston geometrization conjecture and the Poincaré conjecture.See the Solution of the Poincaré conjecture.
Hamilton was awarded the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry in 1996 and the Clay Research Award in 2003. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1999 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003.
elected publications
*1982, "Three-manifolds with positive Ricci curvature," "Journal of Differential Geometry", vol. 17, pp. 255-306. The paper that introduced Ricci flow.
*"Collected Papers on Ricci Flow" ISBN 1-57146-110-8.
External links
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* [http://www.math.columbia.edu/fac-bios/Hamilton/faculty.html Richard Hamilton] – faculty bio at the homepage of the Department of Mathematics of Columbia University
* [http://www.claymath.org/research_award/Hamilton/hamilton_bio.php Richard Hamilton] – brief bio at the homepage of the Clay Mathematics Institute
* [http://www.ams.org/notices/199603/comm-veblen.pdf 1996 Veblen Prize citation]
* [http://www.msri.org/publications/ln/msri/2003/ricciflow/hamilton/1/index.html Lecture by Hamilton on Ricci flow]
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