Review of "Knots" by Alexei Sossinsky, Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00944-4

2003/12/08 by Louis H. Kauffman, Kauffman, Louis H.
Mathematics · #57M25 #Advanced Combinatorial Mathematics #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Topology (math.GT) #Geometric and Algebraic Topology #History and Overview (math.HO) #Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology #math.GT #math.HO #msc:57M25

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math/0312168

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Abstract

This paper is a review of the book "Knots" by Alexei Sossinsky. The review includes a short personal history of knot theory at the end of the twentieth century.

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