Thurston is dead too soon, at age 65, another cancer victim. He was the greatest geometer/topologist of this age and one of the great geometers of any age, a figure of Euclidean importance.
Immediately relevant here, he was also a distinguished computer scientist. His book, Groups, tilings, and finite-state automata. Boulder, CO: American Mathematical Society, 1989. will amply repay the attention of those of you who have theoretical interests. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
