William Thurston
Tampilan
William Thurston | |
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Lahir | William Paul Thurston 30 Oktober 1946 Washington, D.C., Amerika Serikat |
Meninggal | 21 Agustus 2012 Rochester, New York, Amerika Serikat | (umur 65)
Kebangsaan | Amerika Serikat |
Almamater | New College of Florida University of California, Berkeley |
Penghargaan | Fields Medal (1982) Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry (1976) Alan T. Waterman Award (1979) National Academy of Sciences (1983) Leroy P. Steele Prize (2012). |
Karier ilmiah | |
Bidang | Matematika |
Institusi | Cornell University University of California, Davis Mathematical Sciences Research Institute University of California, Berkeley Princeton University Massachusetts Institute of Technology Institute for Advanced Study |
Pembimbing doktoral | Morris Hirsch |
Mahasiswa doktoral | Richard Canary Benson Farb David Gabai William Goldman Steven Kerckhoff Yair Minsky Igor Rivin Oded Schramm Richard Schwartz Danny Calegari Sergio Fenley |
William Paul Thurston (30 Oktober 1946 – 21 Agustus 2012) adalah seorang matematikawan Amerika Serikat. Ia adalah pionir bidang topologi dimensi rendah. Pada 1982, ia dianugerahi Fields Medal. Dari 2003 sampai kematiannya, ia menjadi profesor matematika dan ilmu komputer di Cornell University.
Referensi
Bacaan tambahan
- Gabai, David; Kerckhoff, Steve (Coordinating Editors). "William P. Thurston, 1946–2012" (part 1), Notices of the American Mathematical Society, December 2015, Volume 62, Number 11, pp. 1318–1332.
- Gabai, David; Kerckhoff, Steve (Coordinating Editors). "William P. Thurston, 1946–2012" (part 2), Notices of the American Mathematical Society, January 2015, Volume 63, Number 1, pp. 31–41.
Pranala luar
Wikiquote memiliki koleksi kutipan yang berkaitan dengan: William Thurston.
- William Thurston di Mathematics Genealogy Project
- John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson. William Thurston di MacTutor archive.
- Thurston's page at Cornell
- Tribute and remembrance page at Cornell
- Etienne Ghys : La géométrie et la mode