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