Thurston, William P., 1946-2012
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Name (Hebrew)
ת'רסטן, ויליאם, 1946-2012
Name (Latin)
Thurston, William P., 1946-2012
Other forms of name
Thurston, W. P. (William P.), 1946-2012
Thurston, William P., 1946-
Date of birth
1946-10-30
Date of death
2012-08-21
Field of activity
Mathematics
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- Gabai, D. Genera of the arborescent links, 1986:CIP t.p. (William P. Thurston) data sheet (b. 10/30/46)
- New York times WWW site, Aug. 23, 2012(in obituary published Aug. 22: William P. Thurston; b. William Paul Thurston, Oct. 30, 1946, Washington; d. Tuesday [Aug. 21, 2012], Rochester, aged 65; mathematician who revolutionized understanding of the structure of three-dimensional spaces and won the Fields Medal)
- Three-dimensional geometry and topology, 1997:CIP t.p., v. 1 (William P. Thurston) publr. info. (William Paul Thurston)
- William Thurston (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 was awarded the Fields Medal in 1982 for his contributions to the study of 3-manifolds. Thurston was a professor of mathematics at Princeton University, University of California, Davis, and Cornell University. He was also a director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute. William Thurston was born in Washington, D.C., to Margaret Thurston (née Martt), a seamstress, and Paul Thurston, an aeronautical engineer. He received his bachelor's degree from New College in 1967 as part of its inaugural class. For his undergraduate thesis, he developed an intuitionist foundation for topology. Following this, he received a doctorate in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley under Morris Hirsch, with his thesis Foliations of Three-Manifolds which are Circle Bundles in 1972. After completing his Ph.D., Thurston spent a year at the Institute for Advanced Study, then another year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an assistant professor. In 1974, Thurston was appointed a full professor at Princeton University. He returned to Berkeley in 1991 to be a professor (1991-1996) and was also director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) from 1992 to 1997. He was on the faculty at UC Davis from 1996 until 2003, when he moved to Cornell University. ( (Wikipedia, viewed June 8, 2026:) )
- nuc90-50115: Cooper, D. Triangulating 3-manifolds ... 1985?(usage on CU rept.: W.P. Thurston)
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