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.
David S. Johnson David Stifler Johnson (December 9, 1945 – March 8, 2016) was an American computer scientist specializing in algorithms and optimization. He was the head of the Algorithms and Optimization Department of AT&T Labs Research from 1988 to 2013, and was a visiting professor at Columbia University from 2014 to 2016. He was awarded the 2010 Knuth Prize.