Re:Bill Thurston answers: What's a mathematician to do?
by hdevarajan on Sunday October 29, 2017 @10:04AM
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Thurston is low dimensional topologist and Fields medalist. From the Wikipedia page:
'In fact, Thurston resolved so many outstanding problems in foliation theory in such a short period of time that it led to a kind of exodus from the field, where advisors counselled students against going into foliation theory[1] because Thurston was "cleaning out the subject"'
'In fact, Thurston resolved so many outstanding problems in foliation theory in such a short period of time that it led to a kind of exodus from the field, where advisors counselled students against going into foliation theory[1] because Thurston was "cleaning out the subject"'