Talk:Orbifold notation

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I'm Heidi Burgiel, one of Conway's co-authors on a book that discusses this topic in detail (to appear).

As I understand the history, Conway did invent an orbifold notation but discarded it after learning the notation described here. The notation that he has so dilligently publicised was invented by William Thurston. Conway credits the first use of such a notation to Murray MacBeath.

While many may know this as "Conway's Orbifold Notation", Conway is not solely responsible for it.

Hi Heidi. I didn't add this article myself, but glad for your information. I first learned about it in a "Geometry and the Imagination" class in 1991.

I just added a link to the class notes. (Looks like the notes reference "Conway's names", crediting him for naming the forms more than the "star-cap" notation.)

Feel free to edit the article to include better credits. Otherwise thanks for the notes here, and maybe someone else will want to expand this as well. Tom Ruen 23:54, 10 July 2006 (UTC)