Combinatorics Encoding Geometry: The Legacy of Bill Thurston in the Story of One Theorem

Philip L. Bowers ()
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Philip L. Bowers: Florida State University, Department of Mathematics

Chapter Chapter 5 in In the Tradition of Thurston, 2020, pp 173-239 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter presents a whirlwind tour of some results surrounding the Koebe–Andre’ev–Thurston Theorem, Bill Thurston’s seminal circle packing theorem that appears in Chapter 13 of The Geometry and Topology of Three-Manifolds.

Keywords: Circle packing; Uniformization; Circle domain; Discrete conformal geometry; Conformal type; Inversive distance; Polyhedron; 52C26; 57M20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-55928-1_5

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