What's Next: The Mathematical Legacy of William P. Thurston (AMS-205)
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What's Next: The Mathematical Legacy of William P. Thurston (AMS-205)
By (Author) Dylan Thurston
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
15th September 2020
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Geometry
Dynamics and statics
History of mathematics
510.92
Physical Properties
Hardback
440
Width 155mm, Height 235mm
Description
William Thurston (1946-2012) was one of the great mathematicians of the twentieth century. He was a visionary whose extraordinary ideas revolutionized a broad range of areas of mathematics, from foliations, contact structures, and Teichmuller theory to automorphisms of surfaces, hyperbolic geometry, geometrization of 3-manifolds, geometric group th
Author Bio
Dylan P. Thurston is professor of mathematics at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is an editor of the journal Quantum Topology.
