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1. Bill Thurston (1946 - 2012) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Thurston/

   30 Oct 2025: 26 (1979), 295-296. W Thurston and J-P Bourguignon, Interview de William Thurston, Gaz. ... Waterman award for William P Thurston, Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 26 (1979), 293.

2. William P. Thurston - New York Times obituary - MacTutor History of…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obituaries/Thurston_NY_Times/

   7 Mar 2023: William P. Thurston, a mathematician who revolutionized understanding of the structure of three-dimensional spaces and won the Fields Medal, often described as the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for mathematics, ... Thinking is really the same as seeing.

3. AMS Steele Prize - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Honours/AMSSteelePrize/

   12 Oct 2026: for his book "Symmetric Functions and Hall Polynomials". 2010 (Lifetime Achievement) William Fulton. ... 2012 (Seminal Contribution to Research) William Thurston.

4. Edinburgh Mathematical Society Lecturers 1883-2024 - MacTutor History …

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/EMS/ems_lecturers/

   5 Nov 2026: Below we list venues, authors of papers/talks, affiliations where known, and titles for meetings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society from 1883, the year of the founding of the Society, to the present day. Some of those listed were not present at

5. William P. Thurston, 1946-2012 - AMS Obituary - MacTutor History of…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obituaries/Thurston_AMS/

   7 Mar 2023: William P. Thurston, whose geometric vision revolutionized topology, died August 21 at the age of 65. ... Alongside Mikhael Gromov, Thurston is one of the fathers of geometric group theory.

6. Hamilton awards - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Hamilton_awards/

   5 Aug 2024: Hamilton conceived of his work as a way to approach both the Poincaré Conjecture and the Thurston Geometrization Conjecture. ... This theorem is the basis of his visionary program to prove William Thurston's geometrisation conjecture, of which the

7. Pictures of Bill Thurston - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Thurston/pictdisplay/

   2 Jan 2026: Photograph by Paul Halmos.

8. All speakers - British Mathematical Colloquium - MacTutor History of…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/BMC/speakers-all/

   17 Oct 2026: Rand, D:Randal-Williams, O: 2017. ... Williams, D:Williamson, J H:Williamson, W: 2011.

9. 1982 ICM - Warsaw - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/ICM/ICM_Warsaw_1983/

   15 Dec 2023: William Thurston, Princeton. ... When Professors Connes, Tarjan, Thurston and Yau had received the prizes from Professor Orlicz, it was announced that after the opening session Professor H Araki would speak on the work of

10. Encyclopaedia Britannica biographies - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miscellaneous/EB_list/

    22 May 2023: Below is a list of mathematicians with biographies in the Encyclopaedia Britannica as well as in our archive. Click on a name to go to the Encyclopaedia biography.