Knots: Mathematics with a twist
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Alexei Sossinsky, Giselle Weiss
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Library
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2002
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Harvard University Press
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English
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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 equat