WilliamThurston 2006-09-16 18:56:17 2006-09-17 00:04:42 Biography % this is the default PlanetMath preamble. as your knowledge % of TeX increases, you will probably want to edit this, but % it should be fine as is for beginners. % almost certainly you want these \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{amsfonts} % used for TeXing text within eps files %\usepackage{psfrag} % need this for including graphics (\includegraphics) %\usepackage{graphicx} % for neatly defining theorems and propositions %\usepackage{amsthm} % making logically defined graphics %\usepackage{xypic} % there are many more packages, add them here as you need them % define commands here \emph{William Paul Thurston} (born 1946) American mathematician, recipient of the Fields medal in 1982, perhaps best known for Thurston's geometrization conjecture. After earning a doctorate \PMlinkescapetext{degree} at the University of California, Berkeley, Thurston taught at MIT, Princeton (where he worked on foliation and lectured on the orbifold theorem), UC Davis. Since 2003 he has been a professor of mathematics and computer science at Cornell University.