Invariants of knot diagrams
โ Scribed by Joel Hass; Tahl Nowik
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 380 KB
- Volume
- 342
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0025-5831
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