William Paul Thurston (October 30, 1946 – August 21, 2012) was an American mathematician. He was a pioneer in the field of low-dimensional topology and...

William Thurston (1982), and implies several other conjectures, such as the Poincaré conjecture and Thurston's elliptization conjecture. Thurston's hyperbolization...

Thurston Joseph Moore (born July 25, 1958) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter best known as a member of the rock band Sonic Youth. He has...

William Thurston's elliptization conjecture states that a closed 3-manifold with finite fundamental group is spherical, i.e. has a Riemannian metric of...

after early landowner William Thurston. The Town of Thurston is the east-central part of the county, northwest of Corning. Thurston was first settled circa...

boundary slopes. William Floyd and Hatcher classified all the incompressible surfaces in punctured-torus bundles over the circle. William Thurston and Hatcher...

In mathematics, Thurston's classification theorem characterizes homeomorphisms of a compact orientable surface. William Thurston's theorem completes the...

hyperbolic link with one component. As a consequence of the work of William Thurston, it is known that every knot is precisely one of the following: hyperbolic...

(or orbifold signature) is a system, invented by the mathematician William Thurston and promoted by John Conway, for representing types of symmetry groups...

Poincaré conjecture (and the more powerful geometrization conjecture of William Thurston). Over the next several years, several mathematicians studied his papers...

William Thurston (1982), and implies several other conjectures, such as the Poincaré conjecture and Thurston's elliptization conjecture. Thurston's hyperbolization...

Cannon and William Thurston "Group-invariant Peano curves" (eventually published in 2007) about fibered hyperbolic 3-manifolds. Cannon–Thurston maps provide...

Lorrin Andrews Thurston (July 31, 1858 – May 11, 1931) was an American-Hawaiian lawyer, politician, and businessman. Thurston played a prominent role in...

flow, Poincaré conjecture Mikhail Gromov (1943–) Rudy Rucker (1946–) William Thurston (1946–2012) Shing-Tung Yau (1949–) Michael Freedman (1951–) Egon Schulte...

the number of right cusps. It is named after William Thurston and Daniel Bennequin. The maximum Thurston–Bennequin number over all Legendrian representatives...

in the analysis of Ricci flow, and proved the Poincaré conjecture and Thurston's geometrization conjecture, the former of which had been a famous open...

definition relies on the notion of a measured foliation introduced by William Thurston, who also coined the term "pseudo-Anosov diffeomorphism" when he proved...

Howard Thurston was born July 20, 1869, in Columbus, Ohio. He was the middle son of William and Margaret Thurston. His father William Henry Thurston was...

winners were awarded for works in topology. James Harris Simons and William Thurston were the first ones to receive it for works in geometry (for some distinctions...

method of changing one hyperbolic manifold into another, introduced by William Thurston (1986). Given a simple closed geodesic on an oriented hyperbolic surface...

mathematics, the Thurston norm is a function on the second homology group of an oriented 3-manifold introduced by William Thurston, which measures in...

It is named after Mikhail Gromov, who introduced it in 1982. With William Thurston, he proved that the simplicial volume of a finite volume hyperbolic...

so) in the theory of 3-manifolds. Sometime in the mid-to-late 1970s, William Thurston showed that the figure-eight was hyperbolic, by decomposing its complement...

The circle packing theorem (also known as the Koebe–Andreev–Thurston theorem) describes the possible tangency relations between circles in the plane whose...

Thurston Island (72°6′S 99°0′W / 72.100°S 99.000°W / -72.100; -99.000 (Thurston Island)) is a largely ice-covered, glacially dissected island, 135...

positive curvature must be closed and have finite fundamental group. William Thurston's elliptization conjecture, proven by Grigori Perelman using Richard...

series of breakthroughs transformed the subject. In the late 1970s, William Thurston introduced hyperbolic geometry into the study of knots with the hyperbolization...

isomorphism on homology. The theorem is attributed to Daniel Kan and William Thurston who published their result in 1976. Let X {\displaystyle X} be a path-connected...

topological conjugacy. The theory had been developed by John Milnor and William Thurston in two widely circulated and influential Princeton preprints from 1977...

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