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Heisuke Hironaka obituary: mathematician who smoothed out geometry’s complexities

by Suzi Wilson | Aug 28, 2026 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

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Nature, Published online: 28 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02688-x

His awe-inspiring proof for the resolution of singularities — such as peaks, edges and self-crossings — revolutionized algebraic geometry.

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