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William Thurston
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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 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.
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Cross-references: theorem, orbifold, Thurston's geometrization conjecture, Fields medal
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| AMS MSC: | 01A60 (History and biography :: History of mathematics and mathematicians :: 20th century) | | | 01A61 (History and biography :: History of mathematics and mathematicians :: Twenty-first century) | | | 01A65 (History and biography :: History of mathematics and mathematicians :: Contemporary) |
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