Knots

Mathematics with a Twist

Alexei Sossinsky

Translated by Giselle Weiss

    Preface

    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?

    Notes

    Works Cited

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Alexei Sossinsky is Professor of Mathematics, University of Moscow.