Knots

出版者:Harvard Univ Pr

作者:Sossinsky, A.B.

页数:176

译者:Weiss, Giselle

出版时间:2002-12

价格:$ 28.19

装帧:HRD

isbn号码:9780674009448

This book, written by a mathematician known for his own work on knot theory, is a clear, concise, and engaging introduction to this complicated subject. A guide to the basic ideas and applications of knot theory, Knots takes us from Lord Kelvin's early - and mistaken - idea of using the knot to model the atom, almost a century and a half ago, to the central problem confronting knot theorists today: distinguishing among various knots, classifying them, and finding a straightforward and general way of determining whether two knots - treated as mathematical objects - are equal.