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Classical Knot Theory

J. Scott Carter

Published 2012-06-20Version 1

This paper is a very brief introduction to knot theory. It describes knot coloring by quandles, the fundamental group of a knot complement, and handle-decompositions of knot complements.

Comments: manuscript of paper in the journal Symmetry. There are some nice pictures here
Journal: Symmetry 2012, 4, 225-250
Categories: math.GT
Subjects: 57M25
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