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Colin Conrad Adams is a mathematician primarily working in the areas of hyperbolic 3-manifolds and knot theory. His work has been praised for its accessible approach to advanced topics in knot theory.
Preface | p. 0 |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Mathematical Knots: What Are They? | p. 5 |
The Basic Idea | p. 5 |
Composition | p. 9 |
Crossing Number | p. 13 |
Reidemeister Moves | p. 15 |
Links | p. 19 |
Unknotting Number | p. 27 |
How Many Knots Are There? | p. 30 |
Denoting Pictures of Knots | p. 34 |
Knots , What Good Are They? | p. 38 |
History | p. 38 |
Knotted DNA | p. 39 |
Knotted Molecules | p. 41 |
Random Knotting | p. 44 |
The Future | p. 45 |
Extra Fun | p. 46 |
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Further Reading | p. 51 |
Some Answers to the Experiments | p. 52 |
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