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| Author | : Dale Rolfsen |
| Publisher | : American Mathematical Soc. |
| Total Pages | : 458 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 0821834363 |
Rolfsen's beautiful book on knots and links can be read by anyone, from beginner to expert, who wants to learn about knot theory. Beginners find an inviting introduction to the elements of topology, emphasizing the tools needed for understanding knots, the fundamental group and van Kampen's theorem, for example, which are then applied to concrete problems, such as computing knot groups. For experts, Rolfsen explains advanced topics, such as the connections between knot theory and surgery and how they are useful to understanding three-manifolds. Besides providing a guide to understanding knot theory, the book offers 'practical' training. After reading it, you will be able to do many things: compute presentations of knot groups, Alexander polynomials, and other invariants; perform surgery on three-manifolds; and visualize knots and their complements.It is characterized by its hands-on approach and emphasis on a visual, geometric understanding. Rolfsen offers invaluable insight and strikes a perfect balance between giving technical details and offering informal explanations. The illustrations are superb, and a wealth of examples are included. Now back in print by the AMS, the book is still a standard reference in knot theory. It is written in a remarkable style that makes it useful for both beginners and researchers. Particularly noteworthy is the table of knots and links at the end. This volume is an excellent introduction to the topic and is suitable as a textbook for a course in knot theory or 3-manifolds. Other key books of interest on this topic available from the AMS are ""The Shoelace Book: A Mathematical Guide to the Best (and Worst) Ways to Lace your Shoes"" and ""The Knot Book.""
| Author | : Peter S. Ozsváth |
| Publisher | : American Mathematical Soc. |
| Total Pages | : 423 |
| Release | : 2015-12-04 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1470417375 |
Knot theory is a classical area of low-dimensional topology, directly connected with the theory of three-manifolds and smooth four-manifold topology. In recent years, the subject has undergone transformative changes thanks to its connections with a number of other mathematical disciplines, including gauge theory; representation theory and categorification; contact geometry; and the theory of pseudo-holomorphic curves. Starting from the combinatorial point of view on knots using their grid diagrams, this book serves as an introduction to knot theory, specifically as it relates to some of the above developments. After a brief overview of the background material in the subject, the book gives a self-contained treatment of knot Floer homology from the point of view of grid diagrams. Applications include computations of the unknotting number and slice genus of torus knots (asked first in the 1960s and settled in the 1990s), and tools to study variants of knot theory in the presence of a contact structure. Additional topics are presented to prepare readers for further study in holomorphic methods in low-dimensional topology, especially Heegaard Floer homology. The book could serve as a textbook for an advanced undergraduate or part of a graduate course in knot theory. Standard background material is sketched in the text and the appendices.
| Author | : Peter R. Cromwell |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 2004-10-14 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 9780521548311 |
A richly illustrated 2004 textbook on knot theory; minimal prerequisites but modern in style and content.
| Author | : Colin Conrad Adams |
| Publisher | : American Mathematical Soc. |
| Total Pages | : 330 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 0821836781 |
Knots are familiar objects. Yet the mathematical theory of knots quickly leads to deep results in topology and geometry. This work offers an introduction to this theory, starting with our understanding of knots. It presents the applications of knot theory to modern chemistry, biology and physics.
| Author | : Viktor Vasilʹevich Prasolov |
| Publisher | : American Mathematical Soc. |
| Total Pages | : 250 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 0821808982 |
This book is an introduction to the remarkable work of Vaughan Jones and Victor Vassiliev on knot and link invariants and its recent modifications and generalizations, including a mathematical treatment of Jones-Witten invariants. The mathematical prerequisites are minimal compared to other monographs in this area. Numerous figures and problems make this book suitable as a graduate level course text or for self-study.
| Author | : W.B.Raymond Lickorish |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 213 |
| Release | : 2012-12-06 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 146120691X |
A selection of topics which graduate students have found to be a successful introduction to the field, employing three distinct techniques: geometric topology manoeuvres, combinatorics, and algebraic topology. Each topic is developed until significant results are achieved and each chapter ends with exercises and brief accounts of the latest research. What may reasonably be referred to as knot theory has expanded enormously over the last decade and, while the author describes important discoveries throughout the twentieth century, the latest discoveries such as quantum invariants of 3-manifolds as well as generalisations and applications of the Jones polynomial are also included, presented in an easily intelligible style. Readers are assumed to have knowledge of the basic ideas of the fundamental group and simple homology theory, although explanations throughout the text are numerous and well-done. Written by an internationally known expert in the field, this will appeal to graduate students, mathematicians and physicists with a mathematical background wishing to gain new insights in this area.
| Author | : Inga Johnson |
| Publisher | : Courier Dover Publications |
| Total Pages | : 193 |
| Release | : 2017-01-04 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 0486818748 |
Well-written and engaging, this hands-on approach features many exercises to be completed by readers. Topics include knot definition and equivalence, combinatorial and algebraic invariants, unknotting operations, and virtual knots. 2016 edition.
| Author | : R. H. Crowell |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 191 |
| Release | : 2012-12-06 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 1461299357 |
Knot theory is a kind of geometry, and one whose appeal is very direct because the objects studied are perceivable and tangible in everyday physical space. It is a meeting ground of such diverse branches of mathematics as group theory, matrix theory, number theory, algebraic geometry, and differential geometry, to name some of the more prominent ones. It had its origins in the mathematical theory of electricity and in primitive atomic physics, and there are hints today of new applications in certain branches of chemistryJ The outlines of the modern topological theory were worked out by Dehn, Alexander, Reidemeister, and Seifert almost thirty years ago. As a subfield of topology, knot theory forms the core of a wide range of problems dealing with the position of one manifold imbedded within another. This book, which is an elaboration of a series of lectures given by Fox at Haverford College while a Philips Visitor there in the spring of 1956, is an attempt to make the subject accessible to everyone. Primarily it is a text book for a course at the junior-senior level, but we believe that it can be used with profit also by graduate students. Because the algebra required is not the familiar commutative algebra, a disproportionate amount of the book is given over to necessary algebraic preliminaries.
| Author | : Slavik V. Jablan |
| Publisher | : World Scientific |
| Total Pages | : 497 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 9812772235 |
LinKnot - Knot Theory by Computer provides a unique view of selected topics in knot theory suitable for students, research mathematicians, and readers with backgrounds in other exact sciences, including chemistry, molecular biology and physics. The book covers basic notions in knot theory, as well as new methods for handling open problems such as unknotting number, braid family representatives, invertibility, amphicheirality, undetectability, non-algebraic tangles, polyhedral links, and (2,2)-moves. Conjectures discussed in the book are explained at length. The beauty, universality and diversity of knot theory is illuminated through various non-standard applications: mirror curves, fullerens, self-referential systems, and KL automata.
| Author | : William Menasco |
| Publisher | : Elsevier |
| Total Pages | : 502 |
| Release | : 2005-08-02 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 9780080459547 |
This book is a survey of current topics in the mathematical theory of knots. For a mathematician, a knot is a closed loop in 3-dimensional space: imagine knotting an extension cord and then closing it up by inserting its plug into its outlet. Knot theory is of central importance in pure and applied mathematics, as it stands at a crossroads of topology, combinatorics, algebra, mathematical physics and biochemistry. * Survey of mathematical knot theory * Articles by leading world authorities * Clear exposition, not over-technical * Accessible to readers with undergraduate background in mathematics
