What's Next? -

What's Next?

The Mathematical Legacy of William P. Thurston

Dylan Thurston (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
440 Seiten
2020
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-16777-0 (ISBN)
97,25 inkl. MwSt
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
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 Teichmüller theory to automorphisms of surfaces, hyperbolic geometry, geometrization of 3-manifolds, geometric group theory, and rational maps. In addition, he discovered connections between disciplines that led to astonishing breakthroughs in mathematical understanding as well as the creation of entirely new fields. His far-reaching questions and conjectures led to enormous progress by other researchers. In What's Next?, many of today's leading mathematicians describe recent advances and future directions inspired by Thurston's transformative ideas.

This book brings together papers delivered by his colleagues and former students at "What's Next? The Mathematical Legacy of Bill Thurston," a conference held in June 2014 at Cornell University. It discusses Thurston's fundamental contributions to topology, geometry, and dynamical systems and includes many deep and original contributions to the field. Incisive and wide-ranging, the book explores how he introduced new ways of thinking about and doing mathematics—innovations that have had a profound and lasting impact on the mathematical community as a whole—and also features two papers based on Thurston's unfinished work in dynamics.

Dylan P. Thurston is professor of mathematics at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is an editor of the journal Quantum Topology.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Annals of Mathematics Studies
Verlagsort New Jersey
Sprache englisch
Maße 178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Geometrie / Topologie
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Mechanik
ISBN-10 0-691-16777-X / 069116777X
ISBN-13 978-0-691-16777-0 / 9780691167770
Zustand Neuware
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