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| Apr 21, 2010 at 1:51 | comment | added | Andy Putman | Well, Bers's proof of Thurston's theorem doesn't exactly use the compactification (though it certainly is implicit), and I personally prefer Bers's approach. But I agree with your larger point that understanding Thurston's compactification of Teichmuller space is the key to understanding many phenomena in low-dimensional geometry/topology. | |
| Apr 20, 2010 at 21:23 | history | answered | HJRW | CC BY-SA 2.5 |