{"id":14157,"date":"2024-09-29T16:35:53","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T20:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=14157"},"modified":"2024-11-07T09:20:19","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T14:20:19","slug":"richard-s-hamilton-1943-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=14157","title":{"rendered":"Richard S. Hamilton 1943-2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I heard this morning that Richard Hamilton passed away <del datetime=\"2024-09-30T13:32:05+00:00\">yesterday<\/del> 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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>Richard wrote a short autobiographical piece about himself at the time he was awarded the Shaw Prize in 2011, available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawprize.org\/autobiography\/richard-s-hamilton\/\">here<\/a>. There&#8217;s an interview conducted by his Columbia colleague John Morgan <a href=\"https:\/\/scgp.stonybrook.edu\/archives\/38013\">here<\/a>.  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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lcCBJVLFZ_c\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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 negative stereotypes of academics as narrow and competitive, hostile to their colleagues and institution.  I&#8217;ll miss him, as I miss the others we have recently lost.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Frank Calegari has some memories of Walter Neumann <a href=\"https:\/\/www.galoisrepresentations.com\/2024\/09\/30\/walter-neumann\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=14157\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14157"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14169,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14157\/revisions\/14169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}