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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

Thurston (/ˈθɜːrstən/) is an English-language name. The name has several origins. In some cases it can have originated from the Old Norse personal name...

lines and the plane in Euclidean space. The term "horoball" is due to William Thurston, who used it in his work on hyperbolic 3-manifolds. The terms horosphere...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

interesting phenomena or counterexamples to plausible sounding conjectures. William Thurston has called the study of finite topologies in this sense "an oddball...

mortars positioned behind a railway embankment. Private First Class William Thurston charged one machine gun post and eliminated the gunners with rifle...

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

Kipland Kinkel opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle in the cafeteria of Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon, United States, killing two of his classmates...

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