Richard Hamilton, Who Helped Solve a Mathematical Mystery, Dies at 81
Briefly

Dr. Richard Hamilton, who passed away on Sept. 29, was renowned for his groundbreaking work on the Ricci flow, revolutionizing the study of three-dimensional geometry.
His seminal 1982 paper laid the foundation for understanding how irregular shapes evolve into more uniform forms, akin to the principles of temperature diffusion.
Hamilton's contributions were pivotal in addressing the Poincare conjecture, a major unsolved problem in mathematics that describes the topological nature of three-dimensional spaces.
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