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Author Sosinskii, A. B. (Aleksei Bronislavovich)

Uniform Title Noeuds. English
Title Knots : mathematics with a twist / Alexei Sossinsky ; translated by Giselle Weiss ; [illustrations by Margaret C. Nelson].

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c2002.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  514.224 So73k 2002    ---  Available
Description xix, 127 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Contents Preface -- Atoms and knots : Lord Kelvin. 1860 -- Braided knots : Alexander. 1923 -- Planar diagrams of knots : Reidemeister. 1928-- Arithmetic of knots : Schubert. 1949 -- Surgery and invariants : Conway. 1973 -- Jones's polynomial and spin models : Kauffman. 1987 -- Finite-order invariants : Vassiliev. 1990 -- Knots and physics : Xxx? 2004?
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 127).
Subject Knot theory.
Low-dimensional topology.
ISBN 0674009444 (alk. paper)

 
    
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