Thurston's Work on Surfaces (Mn-48) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780691147352)

This book provides a detailed exposition of William Thurston's work on surface homeomorphisms, available here for the first time in English. Based on material of Thurston presented at a seminar in Orsay from 1976 to 1977, it covers topics such as the space of measured foliations on a surface, the Thurston compactification of Teichm ller space, the Nielsen-Thurston classification of surface homeomorphisms, and dynamical properties of pseudo-Anosov diffeomorphisms. Thurston never published the complete proofs, so this text is the only resource for many aspects of the theory.

Thurston was awarded the prestigious Fields Medal in 1982 as well as many other prizes and honors, and is widely regarded to be one of the major mathematical figures of our time. Today, his important and influential work on surface homeomorphisms is enjoying continued interest in areas ranging from the Poincar conjecture to topological dynamics and low-dimensional topology.

Conveying the extraordinary richness of Thurston's mathematical insight, this elegant and faithful translation from the original French will be an invaluable resource for the next generation of researchers and students.

Author: Albert Fathi, François Laudenbach, Valentin Poénaru
ISBN-10: 0691147353
ISBN-13: 9780691147352
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2012
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.60d