What''s Next? - The Mathematical Legacy of William P. Thurston

"In June of 2014, a conference was held in William Thurston's honor called "What's Next? the mathematical legacy of Bill Thurston." This volume includes papers from conference presenters and solicited papers by prominent scholars. The papers are based on Thurston's fundamental contributions to topology, geometry, and dynamical systems. Beyond these specific accomplishments, they discuss how he introduced new ways of thinking about and of seeing mathematics that have had a profound influence on the entire mathematical community - Thurston discovered connections between disciplines that led to the creation of entirely new fields. This book brings together mathematicians from a broad spectrum of areas to describe recent advances and explore future directions motivated by Thurston's transformative ideas"--

About the author

Edited by Dylan P. Thurston

Summary

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

Foreword

A collected volume on the work of William Thurston written by his co-authors and former students.
Note: This is a simultaneous release. Cloth edition: $165.00, ISBN 9780691167763.

Product details

• Authors: Dylan Thurston
• Assisted by: Dylan Thurston (Editor)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9780691167770
• ISBN: 978-0-691-16777-0
• No. of pages: 440
• Series: Annals of Mathematics Studies
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Mechanics, acoustics; USA, MATHEMATICS / General, MATHEMATICS / Geometry / General, MATHEMATICS / Topology, SCIENCE / Mechanics / Dynamics, geometry, United States of America, USA, Topology, History of mathematics, Dynamics & statics, Dynamics and statics