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456 Listings - DR (10/10)456 Listings - DR (10/10) History of Knot Theory - http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~aar/knots/index.htm
Biographies of early knot theorists. Many early papers on knot theory (in pdf format) including papers by Tait, Kirkman, Little and Thomson.
34,428 Listings - DR (10/10)34,428 Listings - DR (10/10) New Knot Tables - http://members.tripod.com/vismath7/knotab/
Covers families of knots of p, pq, p1q, p11q, p111q, pqr, pq1r types. Explains properties and notations. Includes diagram photos.
1,132 Listings - DR (10/10)1,132 Listings - DR (10/10) Thomas Fink (Tie Knots) - http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~tmf20/
Thomas Fink and Yong Mao, used ideas from statistical mechanics to show there are 85 ways to tie a tie. They discovered a number of new aesthetically pleasing tie knots. This page has links to their original papers and to their book ``The 85 Ways to Tie a Tie''.
104 Listings - DR (9/10)104 Listings - DR (9/10) Knot Theory - http://mathworld.wolfram.com/topics/KnotTheory.html
An overview of knot theory from Mathworld
356 Listings - DR (6/10)356 Listings - DR (6/10) A Circular History of Knot Theory - http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~menasco/Knottheory.html
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.
206 Listings - DR (6/10)206 Listings - DR (6/10) A Third Year Lecture Course on Knots - http://www.warwick.ac.uk/~maaac/MA3F2-page.html
Includes examples, solutions, knot tables, pretty pictures. Course material includes: colouring, Alexander and Jones polynomials, tangles and braids.
489 Listings - DR (6/10)489 Listings - DR (6/10) The Geometry Junkyard: Knot Theory - http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/junkyard/knot.html
A page of links on geometric questions arising from knot embeddings.
646 Listings - DR (6/10)646 Listings - DR (6/10) Cook's Borromean Ring Links - http://paradise.caltech.edu/~cook/Workshop/Math/Borromean/Borrring.html
Links to pages and two outlines of proofs that show the Borromean rings can't be made from circular rings.
341 Listings - DR (6/10)341 Listings - DR (6/10) Geometry and the Imagination - http://math.dartmouth.edu/~doyle/docs/gi/gi/gi.html
Has a small section on knot theory at an introductory level. Also has sections on orbifolds, polyhedra and topology.
1,044 Listings - DR (6/10)1,044 Listings - DR (6/10) String Figure Mathematics (or Trivial Knot Theory) - http://website.lineone.net/~m.p/sf/menu.html
A mathematical analysis of string figures. Theorems, examples, illustrations and conjectures on patterns created with an unknotted string.
81 Listings - DR (5/10)81 Listings - DR (5/10) Using Topology to Probe the Hidden Action of Enzymes - http://www.ams.org/notices/199505/sumners.pdf
Describes how knot theory is used to understand the action of enzymes that affect DNA topolgy.
116 Listings - DR (5/10)116 Listings - DR (5/10) Knot Theory Group University of Liverpool - http://www.liv.ac.uk/~su14/knotgroup.html
Links to preprints and to programs written in pascal for doing knot calculations.
224 Listings - DR (5/10)224 Listings - DR (5/10) Kauffman, Louis H - http://www.math.uic.edu/~kauffman/
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.
690 Listings - DR (4/10)690 Listings - DR (4/10) The Knot Theory Home Page - http://library.thinkquest.org/12295/
Elementary introduction to knot theory. Covers the existence of knots, Reidemeister moves and colorations.
690 Listings - DR (4/10)690 Listings - DR (4/10) Knot Theory Invariants: The HOMFLY Polynomial - http://library.thinkquest.org/12295/data/Invariants/Articles/HOMFLY.html
A brief article on the HOMFLY polynomial and how it is calculated.
440 Listings - DR (4/10)440 Listings - DR (4/10) Morwen Thistlethwaite's Home Page - http://www.math.utk.edu/~morwen/
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.
440 Listings - DR (4/10)440 Listings - DR (4/10) Knotscape - http://www.math.utk.edu/~morwen/knotscape.html
By Jim Hoste and Morwen Thistlethwaite. Provides convenient access to tables of knots. Linux, Solaris.
479 Listings - DR (4/10)479 Listings - DR (4/10) Pictures of Knots - http://www.math.unl.edu/~mbrittenham2/ldt/table9.gif
A table of graphics of all knots of up to nine crossings. Also includes pictures of some links.
58 Listings - DR (3/10)58 Listings - DR (3/10) A Knot Theory Primer - http://www.inst.bnl.gov/~wei/contents.html
Comprehensive knot theory site focusing on the knot classification problem and knot tabulations. Has a tabulation of knots with up to 12 crossings.
On Target - DR (3/10)On Target - DR (3/10) Knot Theory - http://www.mapleapps.com/categories/mathematics/Knot%20theory/html/Knots.htm
Covers techniques of distinguishing knots, types, applications, and Conway notations. Includes illustrations.
On Target - DR (0/10)On Target - DR (0/10) Megamath Knot Theory Page - http://www.c3.lanl.gov/mega-math/gloss/knots/knots.html
An introductory overview of knot theory.
70 Listings - DR (0/10)70 Listings - DR (0/10) Knots on the Web (Peter Suber) - http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/knotlink.htm
A collection of knotting resources on the web. Sections on knot tying, mathematical knot theory, knot art, and knot books.

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