In the Tradition of Thurston
Title | In the Tradition of Thurston PDF eBook |
Author | Ken’ichi Ohshika |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 724 |
Release | 2020-12-07 |
Genre | Mathematics |
ISBN | 3030559289 |
This book consists of 16 surveys on Thurston's work and its later development. The authors are mathematicians who were strongly influenced by Thurston's publications and ideas. The subjects discussed include, among others, knot theory, the topology of 3-manifolds, circle packings, complex projective structures, hyperbolic geometry, Kleinian groups, foliations, mapping class groups, Teichmüller theory, anti-de Sitter geometry, and co-Minkowski geometry. The book is addressed to researchers and students who want to learn about Thurston’s wide-ranging mathematical ideas and their impact. At the same time, it is a tribute to Thurston, one of the greatest geometers of all time, whose work extended over many fields in mathematics and who had a unique way of perceiving forms and patterns, and of communicating and writing mathematics.
In the Tradition of Thurston III
Title | In the Tradition of Thurston III PDF eBook |
Author | Ken’ichi Ohshika |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 456 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 3031435028 |
In the Tradition of Thurston II
Title | In the Tradition of Thurston II PDF eBook |
Author | Ken’ichi Ohshika |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 525 |
Release | 2022-08-02 |
Genre | Mathematics |
ISBN | 3030975606 |
The purpose of this volume and of the other volumes in the same series is to provide a collection of surveys that allows the reader to learn the important aspects of William Thurston’s heritage. Thurston’s ideas have altered the course of twentieth century mathematics, and they continue to have a significant influence on succeeding generations of mathematicians. The topics covered in the present volume include com-plex hyperbolic Kleinian groups, Möbius structures, hyperbolic ends, cone 3-manifolds, Thurston’s norm, surgeries in representation varieties, triangulations, spaces of polygo-nal decompositions and of singular flat structures on surfaces, combination theorems in the theories of Kleinian groups, hyperbolic groups and holomorphic dynamics, the dynamics and iteration of rational maps, automatic groups, and the combinatorics of right-angled Artin groups.
The Last Greatest Magician in the World
Title | The Last Greatest Magician in the World PDF eBook |
Author | Jim Steinmeyer |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2011-02-03 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1101486341 |
Here is the seminal biography of the magician's magician, Howard Thurston, a man who surpassed Houdini in the eyes of showmen and fans and set the standard fro how stage magic is performed today. Everyone knows Houdini-but who was Thurston? In this rich, vivid biography of the "greatest magician in the world," celebrated historian of stage magic Jim Steinmeyer captures the career and controversies of the wonder-worker extraordinaire, Howard Thurston. The public's fickleness over magicians has left Thurston all but forgotten today. Yet Steinmeyer shows how his story is one of the most remarkable in show business. During his life, from 1869 to 1936, Thurston successfully navigated the most dramatic changes in entertainment-from street performances to sideshows to wagon tours through America's still-wild West to stage magic amid the glitter of grand theaters. Thurston became one of America's most renowned vaudeville stars, boldly performing an act with just a handful of playing cards, and then had the foresight to leave vaudeville, expanding his show into an extravaganza with more than forty tons of apparatusand costumes. His touring production was an American institution for nearly thirty years, and Thurston earned a brand name equal to Ziegfeld or Ringling Brothers. Steinmeyer explores the stage and psychological rivalry between Thurston and Houdini during the first decades of the twentieth century- a contest that Thurston won. He won with a bigger show, a more successful reputation, and the title of America's greatest magician. In The Last Greatest Magician in the World, Thurston's magic show is revealed as the one that animates our collective memories.
Belonging to Borders
Title | Belonging to Borders PDF eBook |
Author | Bonnie B. Thurston |
Publisher | Liturgical Press |
Pages | 129 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0814633676 |
The author invites the reader to share her contemplative immersion in the world of Celtic culture and spirituality. Thurston's poetry exposes us to the unyielding harshness of early medieval life in what is now Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, and to the robust and original spirituality.
Automorphisms of Surfaces After Nielsen and Thurston
Title | Automorphisms of Surfaces After Nielsen and Thurston PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew J. Casson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 116 |
Release | 1988-08-18 |
Genre | Mathematics |
ISBN | 9780521349857 |
A comprehensive introduction to selected aspects of modern low-dimensional topology for readers with a knowledge of basic algebra.
Making Something Happen
Title | Making Something Happen PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Thurston |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 283 |
Release | 2003-01-14 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0807875007 |
Poetry makes nothing happen," wrote W. H. Auden in 1939, expressing a belief that came to dominate American literary institutions in the late 1940s--the idea that good poetry cannot, and should not, be politically engaged. By contrast, Michael Thurston here looks back to the 1920s and 1930s to a generation of poets who wrote with the precise hope and the deep conviction that they would move their audiences to action. He offers an engaging new look at the political poetry of Edwin Rolfe, Langston Hughes, Ezra Pound, and Muriel Rukeyser. Thurston combines close textual reading of the poems with research into their historical context to reveal how these four poets deployed the resources of tradition and experimentation to contest and redefine political common sense. In the process, he demonstrates that the aesthetic censure under which much partisan writing has labored needs dramatic revision. Although each of these poets worked with different forms and toward different ends, Thurston shows that their strategies succeed as poetry. He argues that partisan poetry demands reflection not only on how we evaluate poems but also on what we value in poems and, therefore, which poems we elevate.