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Copies of the original 1980 notes were circulated by Princeton University. Later the Geometry Center at the University of Minnesota sold a loosely bound copy of the notes. In 2002, Sheila Newbery typed the notes in TeX and made a PDF file of the notes available, which can be downloaded from
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Canary, R. D.; Epstein, D. B. A.; Green, P. (2006) , "Notes on notes of Thurston", in Canary, Richard D.; Epstein, David; Marden, Albert (eds.),
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from 1978 to 1980 describing his work on 3-manifolds. The notes introduced several new ideas into geometric topology, including
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is a set of widely circulated but unpublished notes for a graduate course taught at Princeton University by
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Chapters 1 to 3 mostly describe basic background material on hyperbolic geometry.
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Chapter 9 covers convergence of Kleinian groups and hyperbolic manifolds.
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Chapter 6 describes Gromov's invariant and his proof of Mostow's theorem.
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and its applications to computing volumes of hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
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Fundamentals of hyperbolic geometry: selected expositions
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Index

William Thurston
orbifolds
pleated manifolds
train tracks
MSRI
Thurston 1997
Dehn surgery
Mostow's theorem
Lobachevsky function
Kleinian groups
train track
pleated manifolds
orbifolds
Fundamentals of hyperbolic geometry: selected expositions
Cambridge University Press
doi
10.1017/CBO9781139106986
ISBN
978-0-521-61558-7
MR
0903850
The geometry and topology of three-manifolds
The geometry and topology of three-manifolds
Thurston, William P.
Three-dimensional geometry and topology. Vol. 1
Princeton University Press
doi
10.1515/9781400865321
ISBN
978-0-691-08304-9

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