Introduction to Knot Theory (Dover Books on Mathematics) - Softcover

Crowell, Richard H.; Fox, Ralph H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486468941 ISBN 13: 9780486468945

Publisher: Dover Publications, 2008

Synopsis

Hailed by the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society as "a very welcome addition to the mathematical literature," this text is appropriate for advanced undergraduates and graduate students. Written by two internationally renowned mathematicians, its accessible treatment requires no previous knowledge of algebraic topology.
Starting with basic definitions of knots and knot types, the text proceeds to examinations of fundamental and free groups. A survey of the historic foundation for the notion of group presentation is followed by a careful proof of the theorem of Tietze and several examples of its use. Subsequent chapters explore the calculation of fundamental groups, the presentation of a knot group, the free calculus and the elementary ideals, and the knot polynomials and their characteristic properties. The text concludes with three helpful appendixes and a guide to the literature.

About this title

About the Author:

A topologist and the world's foremost knot theorist, the late Ralph H. Fox was on the faculty at Princeton University. The late Richard H. Crowell was a Professor of Mathematics at Dartmouth College.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0486468941
• ISBN 13: 9780486468945
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192