Heisuke Hironaka Has Died

(yomiuri.co.jp)

23 points | by pfortuny 1 day ago

2 comments

carefree-bob 1 hour ago
Here is an accessible description of Hironaka's resolution of singularities (pdf):
https://homepage.univie.ac.at/herwig.hauser/Publications/hau...
pfortuny 1 day ago
Grothendieck said of his resolution of singularitis in characteristic 0 that it was the deepest result of the XX Century.