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Richard S. Hamilton 1943-2024 | Not Even Wrong

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I heard this morning that Richard Hamilton passed away yesterday early this morning. He was a renowned figure in geometric analysis, and a faculty member here at Columbia since 1998. In terms of mortality, the last year or two at the Columbia math department have been grim ones, as we’ve lost five senior faculty at relatively young ages: Igor Krichever at age 72, Henry Pinkham at age 74, Lars Nielsen at age 70, Walter Neumann just last week at age 78, and now Hamilton at age 81. Richard wrote a short autobiographical piece about himself at the time he was awarded the Shaw Prize in 2011, available here. There’s an interview conducted by his Columbia colleague John Morgan here. Just a couple months ago, Richard was award the Basic Science Lifetime award in Mathematics. You can watch his lecture given in Beijing at the time here. Richard shared with my four other colleagues that have recently passed away a truly generous outlook on life and other people, very much the opposite of some neg

Richard S. Hamilton 1943-2024 | Not Even Wrong Skip to content Not Even Wrong Home Euclidean Twistor Unification Frequently Asked Questions ← Is Spacetime Unraveling? All Langlands, all the time → Richard S. Hamilton 1943-2024 Posted on September 29, 2024 by woit I heard this morning that Richard Hamilton passed away yesterday early this morning. He was a renowned figure in geometric analysis, and a faculty member here at Columbia since 1998. In terms of mortality, the last year or two at the Columbia math department have been grim ones, as we’ve lost five senior faculty at rel

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