Overview: Presents a series of surveys on topological and geometric subjects that originate in the work of William Thurston, one of the greatest mathematicians of modern times.Written by mathematicians who are .This book consists of 16 surveys on Thurston‘s work and its later development. The authors are mathematicians who were strongly influenced by Thurston‘s publications and ideas. The subjects discussed include, among others, knot theory, the topology of 3-manifolds, circle packings, complex projective structures, hyperbolic geometry, Kleinian groups, foliations, mapping class groups, Teic
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