  | | A Circular History of Knot Theory
| Starting with the flawed theory of Kelvin's knotted vortex to the work of Thurston, Jones and Witten, knot theory has circled back to its ancestral origins of theoretical physics. |
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| Comprehensive knot theory site focusing on the knot classification problem and knot tabulations. Has a tabulation of knots with up to 12 crossings. |
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| Includes examples, solutions, knot tables, pretty pictures. Course material includes: colouring, Alexander and Jones polynomials, tangles and braids. |
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| Braidlink is software for knot and braid theory computations. It performs both analytic and numerical manipulations of knots and braids. |
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| Links to pages and two outlines of proofs that show the Borromean rings can't be made from circular rings. |
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| Has a small section on knot theory at an introductory level. Also has sections on orbifolds, polyhedra and topology. |
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| An introduction to harmonic knots. Gives (parametric) formulas for knots of up to 7 crossings. |
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| Biographies of early knot theorists. Many early papers on knot theory (in pdf format) including papers by Tait, Kirkman, Little and Thomson. |
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| A topologist working in knot theory discusses the connection between knot theory and statistical mechanics. Sections on cybernetics and knots, Fourier knots and the author's research papers. |
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| A collection of knots and links, viewed from a (mostly) mathematical perspective. Nearly all of the images here were created with KnotPlot, a program to visualize and manipulate mathematical knots in three and four dimensions. |
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| An overview of knot theory from Mathworld |
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| Covers techniques of distinguishing knots, types, applications, and Conway notations. Includes illustrations. |
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| This site is designed for mathematics students at the high school and college levels as an introduction to an area of mathematics seldom explored in the typical math classroom - the Theory of Knots. |
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| The most comprehensive collection of knotting resources on the web. Sections on knot tying, mathematical knot theory, knot art, and knot books. |
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| By Jim Hoste and Morwen Thistlethwaite. Provides convenient access to tables of knots. Linux, Solaris. |
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| High school level introduction to knot theory. Covers colourings, connected sums, torus knots, prime knots and applications of knot theory. |
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| Has many beautiful images of symmetric knots, and information about a computer program called Knotscape (compiled binaries for Linux, Sunos and Alpha platforms). Includes pictures of knots with 13 crossings or less. |
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| A table of graphics of all knots of up to nine crossings. Also includes pictures of some links. |
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| Elementary introduction to knot theory. Covers the existence of knots, Reidemeister moves and colorations. |
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| Has a large number of beautiful graphics of knots created with KnotPlot. Contains an introductory section on mathematical knot theory. KnotPlot software for various platfroms can be downloaded. |
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