Thurston was very active on mathoverflow snd a lovely character. His answer on "What's a mathematitian to do?" [1] is fairly famous by now. It's been already on

Thurston was very active on mathoverflow snd a lovely character. His answer on "What's a mathematitian to do?" [1] is fairly famous by now. It's been already on HN a couple of times [2] His geometrization conjecture is at the backbone of Perelman's proof of Poincaré hypothesis. [1] https://mathoverflow.net/questions/43690/whats-a-mathematician-to-do/ https://mathoverflow.net/questions/43690/whats-a-mathematici... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23461983 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23461983