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,
Knots and links
β Scribed by Peter R. Cromwell
- Book ID
- 127456544
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 4 MB
- Edition
- First Edition
- Category
- Library
- City
- Cambridge, UK; New York
- ISBN-13
- 9780521839471
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Knot theory is the study of embeddings of circles in space. Peter Cromwell has written a textbook on knot theory designed for use in advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate-level courses. The exposition is detailed and careful yet engaging and full of motivation. Numerous examples and exercises serve to help students through the material, while an instructor's manual is available online.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
## Abstract The main purpose of this paper is to show that any embedding of __K~7~__ in threeβdimensional euclidean space contains a knotted cycle. By a similar but simpler argument, it is also shown that any embedding of __K~6~__ contains a pair of disjoint cycles which are homologically linked.