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 Biography
Dylan P. Thurston is professor of mathematics at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is an editor of the journal Quantum Topology.
