{
  "id": 3958685,
  "title": "Heisuke Hironaka obituary: mathematician who smoothed out geometry’s complexities",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/28/heisuke-hironaka-obituary-mathematician-who-smoothed-out-geometrys",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-28T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Nature",
    "slug": "nature",
    "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02688-x"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}