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Knots and Applications (Series on Knots and Everything, 6) - Hardcover

 
9789810220044: Knots and Applications (Series on Knots and Everything, 6)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 9810220049 ISBN 13: 9789810220044
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc, 1995

Synopsis

This volume is a collection of research papers devoted to the study of relationships between knot theory and the foundations of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and psychology. Included are reprints of the work of Lord Kelvin (Sir William Thomson) on the 19th century theory of vortex atoms, reprints of modern papers on knotted flux in physics and in fluid dynamics and knotted wormholes in general relativity. It also includes papers on Witten's approach to knots via quantum field theory and applications of this approach to quantum gravity and the Ising model in three dimensions. Other papers discuss the topology of RNA folding in relation to invariants of graphs and Vassiliev invariants, the entanglement structures of polymers, the synthesis of molecular Mobius strips and knotted molecules. The book begins with an article on the applications of knot theory to the foundations of mathematics and ends with an article on topology and visual perception. This volume will be of immense interest to all workers interested in new possibilities in the uses of knots and knot theory.

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About the Author

David Finkelstein is Dean of the School of Humanities at the University of Dundee. He is editor of An Index to "Blackwood's Magazine," 1901 1980 (1995) and coeditor of four recent books, including The Book History Reader (2001) and Nineteenth-Century Media and the Construction of Identities (2000). He has spent the last few years investigating the Blackwood papers for the National Library of Scotland, which has enabled him to exploit business documents ignored by or unknown to previous researchers.

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Publisher
World Scientific Pub Co Inc
Publication date
1995
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9810220049
ISBN 13 
9789810220044
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
492
Editor
Cowan Thaddeus M, Finkelstein Head Of The Centre For Open Learning David, Kauffman Louis H, Mielke Eckehard W, Moffatt H Keith, Rasetti Mario G, Rozansky L, Walba D W