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“The most important thing about mathematics is how it resides in the human brain.”
Foreword to Teichmüller Theory
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William Paul Thurston was an American mathematician. He was a pioneer in the field of low-dimensional topology and was awarded the Fields Medal in 1982 for his contributions to the study of 3-manifolds.
Thurston was a professor of mathematics at Princeton University, University of California, Davis, and Cornell University. He was also a director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute. Wikipedia
✵ 30. October 1946 – 21. August 2012
