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Bill Thurston (mathematician, dead at 65)
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| August 22, 2012
| Terence Tao
Posted on 08/22/2012 6:48:48 PM PDT by EveningStar
Bill Thurston, who made fundamental contributions to our understanding of low-dimensional manifolds and related structures, died on Tuesday, aged 65.
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KEYWORDS: billthurston; mathematics; obituary
To: EveningStar
Thanks for posting this. That’s really not that old.
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08/22/2012 6:52:22 PM PDT
by
thecodont
To: EveningStar
Low dimensional manifolds? They must use them in those new fangled Japanese engines.
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08/22/2012 6:52:22 PM PDT
by
Boogieman
To: EveningStar
3-manifolds which obeyed a certain number of topological conditions, could always be given a hyperbolic geometry (i.e. a Riemannian metric that made the manifold isometric to a quotient of the hyperbolic 3-space ). I'll just have to take Bill's word for that. Well, sounds like a genius. R.I.P.
To: SirKit
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08/22/2012 10:02:47 PM PDT
by
SuziQ
To: EveningStar
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08/23/2012 7:16:25 AM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(If you like lying Socialist dirtbags, you'll love Slick Willard)
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