A glimpse into Thurston's work
Résumé
We present an overview of some significant results of Thurston and their impact on mathematics.
Mots clés
- Dehn surgery
- holomorphic motion
- conformal geometry
- symplectic structure
- contact structure
- foliation
- 3-manifolds
- geometric structure
- (G X) structure
- Kleinian groups
- hyperbolic geometry
- Thurston norm
- Smith conjecture
- Cannon--Thurston map
- discrete conformal geometry
- discrete Riemann mapping theorem.
- circle packing
- automatic groups
- tiling
- mapping class groups
- Teichmüller space
- fashion design
- linkage
- Anti-de Sitter geometry
- higher Teichmüller theory
- Grothendieck--Thurston theory
- asymmetric metric
- Schwarzian derivative
- computer science
- Ehrenpreis conjecture
- transitional geometry