Richard S. Hamilton

Richard S. Hamilton is a mathematician renowned for developing the Ricci flow, a process that smoothly deforms the shape of a geometric space over time by adjusting its curvature. His work provides a method to analyze and classify complex shapes, particularly in three dimensions. This groundbreaking approach played a key role in solving the Poincaré Conjecture, one of the most famous problems in mathematics, by helping scientists understand the fundamental structure of 3D spaces and manifolds.