Knots : mathematics with a twist / Alexei Sossinsky ; translated by Giselle Weiss ; [illustrations by Margaret C. Nelson].

By: Sosinskiĭ, A. B. (Alekseĭ Bronislavovich)Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: New Delhi. : Harvard University Press, 2005Description: xix, 127 p. : ill. ; 19 cmISBN: 9788130913865 (pbk)Subject(s): Knot theory | Low-dimensional topologyDDC classification: 514 LOC classification: QA612.2 | .S6713 2002
Contents:
1. Atoms and Knots: Lord Kelvin - 1860 -- 2. Braided Knots: Alexander - 1923 -- 3. Planar Diagrams of Knots: Reidemeister - 1928 -- 4. The Arithmetic of Knots: Schubert - 1949 -- 5. Surgery and Invariants: Conway - 1973 -- 6. Jones's Polynomial and Spin Models: Kauffman - 1987 -- 7. Finite-Order Invariants: Vassiliev - 1990 -- 8. Knots and Physics: Xxx? - 2004?
Review: "Ornaments and Icons, symbols of complexity or evil, aesthetically appealing and endlessly useful in everyday ways, knots are also the object of mathematical theory, used to unravel ideas about the topological nature of space. In recent years knot theory has been brought to bear on the study of equations describing weather systems, mathematical models used in physics, and even, with the realization that DNA sometimes is knotted, molecular biology.".Summary: "This book, written by a mathematician known for his own work on knot theory, is a clear, concise, and engaging introduction to this complicated subject.Summary: A guide to the basic ideas and applications of knot theory, Knots takes us from Lord Kelvin's early - and mistaken - idea of using the knot to model the atom, almost a century and a half age, to the central problem confronting knot theorists today: distinguishing among various knots, classifying them, and finding a straightforward and general way of determining whether two knots - treated as mathematical objects - are equal."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 127).

1. Atoms and Knots: Lord Kelvin - 1860 -- 2. Braided Knots: Alexander - 1923 -- 3. Planar Diagrams of Knots: Reidemeister - 1928 -- 4. The Arithmetic of Knots: Schubert - 1949 -- 5. Surgery and Invariants: Conway - 1973 -- 6. Jones's Polynomial and Spin Models: Kauffman - 1987 -- 7. Finite-Order Invariants: Vassiliev - 1990 -- 8. Knots and Physics: Xxx? - 2004?

"Ornaments and Icons, symbols of complexity or evil, aesthetically appealing and endlessly useful in everyday ways, knots are also the object of mathematical theory, used to unravel ideas about the topological nature of space. In recent years knot theory has been brought to bear on the study of equations describing weather systems, mathematical models used in physics, and even, with the realization that DNA sometimes is knotted, molecular biology.".

"This book, written by a mathematician known for his own work on knot theory, is a clear, concise, and engaging introduction to this complicated subject.

A guide to the basic ideas and applications of knot theory, Knots takes us from Lord Kelvin's early - and mistaken - idea of using the knot to model the atom, almost a century and a half age, to the central problem confronting knot theorists today: distinguishing among various knots, classifying them, and finding a straightforward and general way of determining whether two knots - treated as mathematical objects - are equal."--BOOK JACKET.

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