User:William P. Thurston

I was a member of the first graduating class of New College, of Sarasota Florida, in 1967, received a Ph.D. at UC Berkeley in 1972, and I've had positions at the Institute for Advanced Study, MIT, Princeton, Berkeley, MSRI, UC Davis, and am currently at Cornell. I like finding connections between different ways of looking at mathematics. My most important contribution was the Geometrization conjecture which I developed and established in "most" cases in the 1970's and 1980's and which was proved by Perelman in the 2000's.