Title:
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KNOTS
MATHEMATICS WITH A TWIST |
By: |
Alexei Sossinsky, Giselle Weiss (Trans) |
Format: |
Paperback |
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£26.95 |
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ISBN 10: |
0674013816 |
ISBN 13: |
9780674013810 |
Publisher: |
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
15 April, 2004 |
Pages: |
160 |
Translated from: |
French |
Description: |
Ornaments and icons, symbols of complexity or evil, aesthetically appealing and endlessly useful, knots are also the object of mathematical theory, used to unravel ideas about the topological nature of space. This introduction offers the basic ideas and applications to knot theory. |
Synopsis: |
This book, written by a mathematician known for his own work on knot theory, is a clear, concise, and engaging introduction to this complicated subject. A guide to the basic ideas and applications of knot theory, Knots takes us from Lord Kelvin's early - and mistaken - idea of using the knot to model the atom, almost a century and a half ago, to the central problem confronting knot theorists today: distinguishing among various knots, classifying them, and finding a straightforward and general way of determining whether two knots - treated as mathematical objects - are equal. |
Illustrations: |
64 line illustrations |
Publication: |
US |
Imprint: |
Harvard University Press |
Returns: |
Returnable |
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