William Thurston, the Fields Medalist who made major contributions to low-dimensional topology, died last week. He proved that one could turn a sphere inside out without tearing it up, and made the now proven geometrization conjecture which states that every 3-manifold has a
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William Thurston, the Fields Medalist who made major contributions to low-dimensional topology, died last week. He proved that one could turn a sphere inside out without tearing it up, and made the now proven geometrization conjecture which states that every 3-manifold has a