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Knot Theory:

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.

http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~menasco/Knottheory.html

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Cook's Borromean Ring Links

Links to pages and two outlines of proofs that show the Borromean rings can't be made from circular rings.

http://paradise.caltech.edu/~cook/Workshop/Math/Borromean/Borrring.html

Geometry and the Imagination

Has a small section on knot theory at an introductory level. Also has sections on orbifolds, polyhedra and topology.

http://math.dartmouth.edu/~doyle/docs/gi/gi/gi.html

The Geometry Junkyard: Knot Theory

A page of links on geometric questions arising from knot embeddings.

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/junkyard/knot.html

History of Knot Theory

Biographies of early knot theorists. Many early papers on knot theory (in pdf format) including papers by Tait, Kirkman, Little and Thomson.

http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~aar/knots/index.htm

Kauffman, Louis H

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.

http://www.math.uic.edu/~kauffman/

Knot Theory

Covers techniques of distinguishing knots, types, applications, and Conway notations. Includes illustrations.

http://www.mapleapps.com/categories/mathematics/Knot%20theory/html/Knots.htm

Knot Theory

An overview of knot theory from Mathworld

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/topics/KnotTheory.html

Knot Theory

Links to preprints and to programs written in pascal for doing knot calculations.

http://www.liv.ac.uk/~su14/knotgroup.html

The Knot Theory Home Page

Elementary introduction to knot theory. Covers the existence of knots, Reidemeister moves and colorations.

http://library.thinkquest.org/12295/

Knot Theory Invariants: The HOMFLY Polynomial

A brief article on the HOMFLY polynomial and how it is calculated.

http://library.thinkquest.org/12295/data/Invariants/Articles/HOMFLY.html

A Knot Theory Primer

Comprehensive knot theory site focusing on the knot classification problem and knot tabulations. Has a tabulation of knots with up to 12 crossings.

http://www.inst.bnl.gov/~wei/contents.html

Knotscape

By Jim Hoste and Morwen Thistlethwaite. Provides convenient access to tables of knots. Linux, Solaris.

http://www.math.utk.edu/~morwen/knotscape.html

Megamath Knot Theory Page

An introductory overview of knot theory.

http://www.c3.lanl.gov/mega-math/gloss/knots/knots.html

Morwen Thistlethwaite's Home Page

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.

http://www.math.utk.edu/~morwen/

New Knot Tables

Covers families of knots of p, pq, p1q, p11q, p111q, pqr, pq1r types. Explains properties and notations. Includes diagram photos.

http://members.tripod.com/vismath7/knotab/

Pictures of Knots

A table of graphics of all knots of up to nine crossings. Also includes pictures of some links.

http://www.math.unl.edu/~mbrittenham2/ldt/table9.gif

String Figure Mathematics (or Trivial Knot Theory)

A mathematical analysis of string figures. Theorems, examples, illustrations and conjectures on patterns created with an unknotted string.

http://website.lineone.net/~m.p/sf/menu.html

A Third Year Lecture Course on Knots

Includes examples, solutions, knot tables, pretty pictures. Course material includes: colouring, Alexander and Jones polynomials, tangles and braids.

http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/~bjs/MA3F2-page.html

Thomas Fink (Tie Knots)

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''.

http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~tmf20/

Using Topology to Probe the Hidden Action of Enzymes

Describes how knot theory is used to understand the action of enzymes that affect DNA topolgy. [PDF]

http://www.ams.org/notices/199505/sumners.pdf