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The combinatorial Riemann mapping theorem

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This research was supported in part by NSF research grants. We gratefully acknowledge further support by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Brigham Young University, the University of Minnesota and the Minnesota Supercomputer Institute, the Geometry Supercomputer Project, and Princeton University during the period of this research.

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Cannon, J.W. The combinatorial Riemann mapping theorem. Acta Math. 173, 155–234 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02398434

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