https://www.ams.org/notices/200509/fea-hironaka.pdf Heisuke Hironaka is one of the premier algebraic geometers of the twentieth century. He is best known for his 1964 work on the resolution of singularities of algebraic varieties over a field of characteristic zero, for which he received the Fields Medal in 1970. (…) What follows is the edited text of an interview with Heisuke Hironaka, conducted in December 2004 by Notices senior writer and deputy editor Allyn Jackson.