is a mathematician at Indiana University Bloomington. Thurston had two children with his second wife, Julian Muriel Thurston: Hannah Jade and Liam. Thurston died on August 21, 2012 in Rochester, New York, of a sinus mucosal melanoma that was diagnosed in 2011. Selected publications William Thurston, The geometry and topology of three-manifolds, Princeton lecture notes (1978–1981). William Thurston, Three-dimensional geometry and topology. Vol. 1. Edited by Silvio Levy. Princeton Mathematical Series, 35. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1997. x+311 pp. William Thurston, Hyperbolic structures on 3-manifolds. I. Deformation of acylindrical manifolds. Ann. of Math. (2) 124 (1986), no. 2, 203–246. William Thurston, Three-dimensional manifolds, Kleinian groups and hyperbolic geometry, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 6 (1982), 357–381. William Thurston, On the geometry and dynamics of diffeomorphisms of surfaces. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 19 (1988), no. 2, 417–431 Epstein, David B. A.; Cannon, James W.; Holt, Derek F.; Levy, Silvio V. F.; Paterson, Michael S.; Thurston, William P. Word Processing in Groups. Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Boston, Massachusetts, 1992. xii+330 pp. Eliashberg, Yakov M.; Thurston, William P. Confoliations. University Lecture Series, 13. American Mathematical Society, Providence, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, 1998. x+66 pp. William Thurston, On proof and progress in mathematics. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 30 (1994) 161–177 William P. Thurston, "Mathematical education". Notices of the AMS 37:7 (September 1990) pp 844–850 See also Automatic group Cannon–Thurston map Circle packing theorem Hyperbolic volume Hyperbolic Dehn surgery Thurston boundary Milnor–Thurston kneading theory Misiurewicz–Thurston points Nielsen–Thurston classification Normal surface Orbifold notation Thurston norm Thurston's double limit theorem Thurston elliptization conjecture Thurston's geometrization conjecture Thurston's height condition Thurston's orbifold theorem Earthquake theorem References Further reading Gabai, David; Kerckhoff, Steve (Coordinating Editors). "William P. Thurston, 1946–2012" (part 2), Notices of the American Mathematical Society, January 2015, Volume 63, Number 1, pp. 31–41. External links Thurston's page at Cornell Tribute and remembrance page at Cornell Etienne Ghys : La géométrie et la mode 1946 births 2012 deaths New College of Florida alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni Topologists Differential geometers Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians Fields Medalists Princeton University faculty University of California, Berkeley faculty Cornell University faculty University of California, Davis faculty Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars Mathematicians from Washington, D.C.