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Born

30 October
Washington, D.C., USA

Died

21 August
Rochester, New York, USA

Summary

Bill Thurston was an American mathematician who won a Fields Medal for his work on 2 and 3 dimensional manifolds.

Biography

Bill Thurston studied at New College, Sarasota, Florida.

He received his B.S. from there in and moved to the University of California at Berkeley to undertake research under Morris Hirsch's and Stephen Smale's supervision.

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He was awarded his doctorate in for a thesis entitled Foliations of 3-manifolds which are circle bundles. This work showed the existence of compact leaves in foliations of 3-dimensional manifolds.

After completing his Ph.D., Thurston spent the academic year at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. Then, in , he was appointed an assistant professor of mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In he was appointed professor of mathematics at Princeton University.

Throughout this period Thurston wo