The Uniformization Theorem

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsWilliam AbikoffWilliam Abikoff received his B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering and his Ph.D. in mathematics from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. He worked at Bell Telephone Laboratories and taught at Columbia University and the universities of Perugia, Firenze, and Paris. He is currently an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has been a research fellow at the Mittag-Leffler Institute and the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques. His research interests have centered on the use of geometric function theory in the study of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory, and Kleinian groups. Currently he is studying the structure at infinity of hyperbolic manifolds.—Editors