Richard Hamilton (professor)

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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, and Cornell University.

Hamilton is best known for having invented the Ricci flow, which Grigori Perelman employed in his proof of the Thurston geometrization conjecture and the Poincaré conjecture.

Hamilton was awarded the Oswald Veblen prize 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.

[edit] Selected publications

• 1982, "Three-manifolds with positive Ricci curvature," J. Diff. Geom 17: 255-306. The paper that introduced Ricci flow.
• Collected Papers on Ricci Flow ISBN 1571461108.

[edit] External links

• Richard Hamilton (professor) at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Columbia mathematics faculty
• Lecture by Hamilton on Ricci flow
• 1996 Veblen prize citation
• Clay math institute bio of Hamilton