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Richard Hamilton

lived from 1943 to 2024

Richard Hamilton was an American mathematician famed for his important contributions to proving the Poincaré Conjecture. He has been awarded prestigious prizes including the Oswald Veblen Prize, the Clay Research Award, the Leroy P Steele Prize and the Shaw Prize.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Hamilton_Richard/