Triangulations of the Sphere (Part 2)

Thurston’s paper Shapes of polyhedra and triangulations of the sphere is really remarkable. I’m writing about it in my next column for the Notices of the American Mathematical Society. Here’s a draft — which is also a much more detailed version of an earlier blog post here.

If you have suggestions or corrections, please let me know: I can try to take them into account before this is due on November 5th. Just don’t ask me to make this longer: I have a strict limit.

If you cut out this awkwar...