What Columbia University professor proved the Earle-Hamilton fixed-point theorem with Clifford Earle in 1968?
Richard S. Hamilton Richard Streit Hamilton (born 1943) is Davies Professor of Mathematics at Columbia University.
John Milnor John Willard Milnor (born February 20, 1931) is an American mathematician known for his work in differential topology, K-theory and dynamical systems. Milnor is a distinguished professor at Stony Brook University and one of the five mathematicians to have won the Fields Medal, the Wolf Prize, and the Abel Prize (along with Pierre Deligne, Jean-Pierre Serre, and John G. Thompson).