Professor
Richard Hamilton
(
–
)
1943
2024
Columbia University
;
New York, NY
Mathematician; Educator
Area
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Specialty
Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics
Elected
2003
Professor of Mathematics. Made contributions to geometry, partial differential equations, and applied mathematics. Did influential work on mean curvature flow and harmonic maps. Solved outstanding problems, including the topology and geometry of manifolds with positive curvature and Kahler-Einstein metrics.
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