William Thurston

William Paul Thurston (30 Oktober 1946 – 21 Agustus 2012) adalah seorang matematikawan Amerika Serikat. Ia adalah pionir bidang topologi dimensi rendah. Pada 1982, ia dianugerahi Fields Medal. Dari 2003 sampai kematiannya, ia menjadi profesor matematika dan ilmu komputer di Cornell University.

William Thurston
William Thurston pada 1991
Lahir	William Paul Thurston (1946-10-30)30 Oktober 1946 Washington, D.C., Amerika Serikat
Meninggal	21 Agustus 2012(2012-08-21) (umur 65) Rochester, New York, Amerika Serikat
Kebangsaan	Amerika Serikat
Almamater	New College of Florida University of California, Berkeley
Penghargaan	Fields Medal (1982) Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry (1976) Alan T. Waterman Award (1979) National Academy of Sciences (1983) Leroy P. Steele Prize (2012).
Karier ilmiah
Bidang	Matematika
Institusi	Cornell University University of California, Davis Mathematical Sciences Research Institute University of California, Berkeley Princeton University Massachusetts Institute of Technology Institute for Advanced Study
Pembimbing doktoral	Morris Hirsch
Mahasiswa doktoral	Richard Canary Benson Farb David Gabai William Goldman Steven Kerckhoff Yair Minsky Igor Rivin Oded Schramm Richard Schwartz Danny Calegari Sergio Fenley

Bacaan tambahan

• Gabai, David; Kerckhoff, Steve (Coordinating Editors). "William P. Thurston, 1946–2012" (part 1), Notices of the American Mathematical Society, December 2015, Volume 62, Number 11, pp. 1318–1332.
• Gabai, David; Kerckhoff, Steve (Coordinating Editors). "William P. Thurston, 1946–2012" (part 2), Notices of the American Mathematical Society, January 2015, Volume 63, Number 1, pp. 31–41.

Pranala luar

• William Thurston di Mathematics Genealogy Project
• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson. William Thurston di MacTutor archive.
• Thurston's page at Cornell
• Tribute and remembrance page at Cornell
• Etienne Ghys : La géométrie et la mode