Reconstruction method
This is a bibliographic and methodological reconstruction, not a reproduction of Thurston’s papers, books, notes, or lectures. It adapts the uploaded Logarchéon/Ahlfors/Conway/Knuth 300-case format into a Thurston-specific research instrument: strategy cards, formulas, diagnostic questions, failure modes, case traces, source-control layers, and worked demonstrations. Strategy tags overlap; percentages do not sum to 100%.
Core thesis
Thurston’s method is a discipline of visible structure. Start with a manipulable object, translate topology into geometry or dynamics, locate the obstruction, compress the invariant, and propagate the idea through examples, pictures, notes, and questions until a field can work with it.
Deep reading unit
Each case is read as a pipeline: object → picture/model → geometric language → invariant → obstruction → deformation/limit → theorem/program → communicable understanding.
Why this format
The page makes method operational. Cards expose strategy; formulas expose compression; rankings expose prevalence; corpus rows expose evidence; demonstrations expose how to reuse the method.
The Thurston strategy engine
Overlapping prevalence ranking
Bars show count divided by 300 cases. Since a case carries multiple strategy tags, the displayed prevalence is a method-frequency map rather than a probability distribution.
Decision tree for reading Thurston as method
300-case corpus
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