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...

William Thurston (1982), and implies several other conjectures, such as the Poincaré conjecture and Thurston's elliptization conjecture. Thurston's hyperbolization...

William Thurston's elliptization conjecture states that a closed 3-manifold with finite fundamental group is spherical, i.e. has a Riemannian metric of...

Thurston Joseph Moore (born July 25, 1958) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter best known as a member of the rock band Sonic Youth. He has...

after early landowner William Thurston. The Town of Thurston is the east-central part of the county, northwest of Corning. Thurston was first settled circa...

In mathematics, Thurston's classification theorem characterizes homeomorphisms of a compact orientable surface. William Thurston's theorem completes the...

Poincaré conjecture (and the more powerful geometrization conjecture of William Thurston). Over the next several years, several mathematicians studied his papers...

Lorrin Andrews Thurston (July 31, 1858 – May 11, 1931) was an American-Hawaiian lawyer, politician, and businessman. Thurston played a prominent role in...

Thurston (/ˈθɜːrstən/) is an English-language name. The name has several origins. In some cases it can have originated from the Old Norse personal name...

hyperbolic link with one component. As a consequence of the work of William Thurston, it is known that every knot is precisely one of the following: hyperbolic...