Mathematician:William Paul Thurston

Mathematician
American mathematician who specialised in low-dimensional topology.

Won the Fields Medal in 1982 for his work on $3$-manifolds.

Nationality
American

History

 * Born: 30 October 1946 in Washington, D.C., USA
 * Died: 21 August 2012 in Rochester, New York, USA

Theorems and Definitions

 * Thurston's Geometrization Conjecture (solved in 2003 by )
 * Milnor-Thurston Kneading Theory (with )
 * Misiurewicz-Thurston Points (with )
 * Thurston's Double Limit Theorem
 * Nielsen-Thurston Classification (with )
 * Earthquake Theorem

Publications

 * 1978 -- 81: The geometry and topology of three-manifolds
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Notable Quotes

 * I think mathematics is a vast territory. The outskirts of mathematics are the outskirts of mathematical civilization. There are certain subjects that people learn about and gather together. Then there is a sort of inevitable development in those fields. You get to a point where a certain theorem is bound to be proved, independent of any particular individual, because it is just in the path of development.
 * -- More mathematical people, 1990