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William Thurston

1946 - 2012

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William Paul Thurston (October 30, 1946 – August 21, 2012) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Thurston has received more than 352,121 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). William Thurston is the 454th most popular mathematician (up from 488th in 2019), the 3,709th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,157th in 2019) and the 25th most popular American Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, William Thurston ranks 454 out of 1,004. Before him are Sergei Natanovich Bernstein, Oscar Zariski, Yves Meyer, Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, Francesco Maurolico, and Yang Hui. After him are Richard E. Bellman, Edmund Gunter, Yuri Manin, Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, William Kingdon Clifford, and Adriaan van Roomen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, William Thurston ranks 274. Before him are Diane von Fürstenberg, Joseph Deiss, Hanna Suchocka, Slim Borgudd, Dick van Dijk, and Pierino Prati. After him are Ichiro Hosotani, Peggy Lipton, Karim Findi, Prince Tomohito of Mikasa, Alexander Kaidanovsky, and Renzo Zorzi. Among people deceased in 2012, William Thurston ranks 154. Before him are Dawoud Rajiha, Eiko Ishioka, Sage Stallone, Ivica Horvat, Eve Arnold, and Han Suyin. After him are Michel Duchaussoy, Gevork Vartanian, Prince Tomohito of Mikasa, Assef Shawkat, I. K. Gujral, and George McGovern.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Thurston ranks 3,709 out of 20,380. Before him are Kevin Hagen (1928), Barry Bostwick (1945), Claire Trevor (1910), Linda McMahon (1948), Tim Buckley (1947), and Howard Fast (1914). After him are Richard E. Bellman (1920), Carlos Lopes (1947), Vince Gilligan (1967), Jon Krakauer (1954), Harris Yulin (1937), and Mancur Olson (1932).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, William Thurston ranks 25. Before him are Stephen Cole Kleene (1909), Raymond Smullyan (1919), Richard Hamming (1915), Richard S. Hamilton (1943), Jim Simons (1938), and Whitfield Diffie (1944). After him are Richard E. Bellman (1920), Isadore Singer (1924), Dennis Sullivan (1941), George David Birkhoff (1884), Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944), and Julia Robinson (1919).

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