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The mystery of knots

computer programming for knot tabulation

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World Scientific
Language
English
Pages
396

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Cover of: Mystery of Knots
Mystery of Knots: Computer Programming for Knot Tabulation
1999, World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
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Cover of: The mystery of knots
The mystery of knots: computer programming for knot tabulation
1999, World Scientific
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Table of Contents

Pt. 1. A Knot Theory Primer. 1. A General Understanding of Topology. 2. Knot Theory as a Branch of Topology. 3. The Regular Presentations of Knots. 4. The Equivalence Moves. 5. The Knot Invariants. 6. Elements of Group Theory. 7. The Fundamental Group. 8. The Knot Group. 9. The Colorization Invariants. 10. The Alexander Polynomial. 11. The Theory of Linear Homogeneous Systems. 12. Calculating the Alexander Polynomial. 13. The "minor" Alexander Polynomials. 14. The Meridian-Longitude Invariants. 15. Proving a Knot's Chirality. 16. Braid Theory - Skein Invariants. 17. Calculating the HOMFLYPT Polynomials. 18. Knot Theory after the HOMFLYPT
Pt. 2. The Problem of Knot Tabulation. 1. Basic Concepts of Computer Programming. 2. The Dowker Notation. 3. Drawing the Knot. 4. When is a Notation Drawable? 5. The "Equal Drawability" Moves. 6. Multiple Notations for Equivalent Knots. 7. Ordering the Dowker Notations. 8. Calculating the Notation Invariants. 9. A Few Examples. 10. The Knot Tabulation Algorithm. 11. The Pseudocode. 12. The Flowchart. 13. Actual Results
Pt. 3. The Table of Knots.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-387) and index.

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Singapore, River Edge, NJ
Series
K & E series on knots and everything ;, v. 20

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Dewey Decimal Class
514/.224
Library of Congress
QA612.2 .A64 1999

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x, 396 p. :
Number of pages
396

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OL3700966M
Internet Archive
mysteryknotscomp00anez
ISBN 10
9810238789
LCCN
2003266974
OCLC/WorldCat
43517217
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1439260

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