Timeline for Thurston's "tinker toy" problem
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| Mar 24, 2018 at 13:43 | comment | added | Robin Goodfellow | I've actually been meaning to ask this for a while. Thanks! | |
| Mar 23, 2018 at 4:17 | comment | added | Rohil Prasad | This is great, thanks to everyone for their answers! | |
| Mar 21, 2018 at 23:18 | comment | added | Alexandre Eremenko | Perhaps not "any compact smooth manifold", but "any compact smooth algebraic variety"? For algebraic curves, this is classical. | |
| Mar 21, 2018 at 22:37 | comment | added | Nik Weaver | Thank you for the link to Benson's essay! The first two paragraphs are an absolute gem. | |
| Mar 21, 2018 at 22:33 | answer | added | Joseph O'Rourke | timeline score: 24 | |
| Mar 21, 2018 at 22:08 | answer | added | Igor Rivin | timeline score: 25 | |
| Mar 21, 2018 at 22:03 | answer | added | Kevin Walker | timeline score: 34 | |
| Mar 21, 2018 at 21:42 | answer | added | Andy Putman | timeline score: 26 | |
| Mar 21, 2018 at 21:39 | comment | added | Lee Mosher | Take a look here: arxiv.org/pdf/math/9807023.pdf | |
| Mar 21, 2018 at 21:37 | comment | added | David G. Stork | See: Geometric Folding Algorithms: Linkages, Origami, Polyhedra by Erik Domaine and Joseph O'Rourke amazon.com/Geometric-Folding-Algorithms-Linkages-Polyhedra/dp/… | |
| Mar 21, 2018 at 21:37 | comment | added | Gerhard Paseman | I am not sure about this problem. I heard that for any manifold M (probably one needs compact and smooth) and any positive real epsilon, there was a T (called a linkage) such that C(T) was epsilon close to M, either by embedding both in R^n or by assigning some metric and finding a near isometry. But this is not my field, and I am recalling something from another millennium. Gerhard "Gee, I Feel Really Creaky" Paseman, 2018.03.21. | |
| Mar 21, 2018 at 21:28 | history | asked | Rohil Prasad | CC BY-SA 3.0 |