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Bill Thurston Member for 15 years, 7 months Cornell University

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answer (626) What's a mathematician to do?

question (422) Thinking and Explaining

answer (153) Is there an underlying explanation for the magical powers of the Schwarzian derivative?

answer (140) Lecture notes by Thurston on tiling

question (131) What are the shapes of rational functions?

answer (94) Are there any very hard unknots?

answer (80) Volumes of n-balls: what is so special about n=5?

question (68) Perron number distribution

answer (64) When can a connection Induce a Riemannian metric for which it is the Levi-Civita connection?

answer (59) Computing homotopies