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• Reference: Knots (81)
• Science: Math: Topology: Geometric Topology (6)

• Knots on the Web (Peter Suber) - A collection of knotting resources on the web. Sections on knot tying, mathematical knot theory, knot art, and knot books.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Geometry and the Imagination - Has a small section on knot theory at an introductory level. Also has sections on orbifolds, polyhedra and topology.
• Harmonic Knots - Some results and figures from Aaron Trautwein's thesis.
• 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.
• 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.
• Knot Theory - An overview of knot theory from Mathworld
• Knot Theory Group University of Liverpool - Links to preprints and to programs written in pascal for doing knot calculations.
• Knot Theory Invariants: The HOMFLY Polynomial - A brief article on the HOMFLY polynomial and how it is calculated.
• Knotscape - By Jim Hoste and Morwen Thistlethwaite. Provides convenient access to tables of knots. Linux, Solaris.
• Mathematics and Knots - An exhibition of knots provided by the Division of Mathematics, University of Wales, Bangor.
• Megamath Knot Theory Page - An introductory overview of knot theory.
• 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.
• New Knot Tables - Covers families of knots of p, pq, p1q, p11q, p111q, pqr, pq1r types. Explains properties and notations. Includes diagram photos.
• Pictures of Knots - A table of graphics of all knots of up to nine crossings. Also includes pictures of some links.
• 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.
• The Geometry Junkyard: Knot Theory - A page of links on geometric questions arising from knot embeddings.
• The Knot Theory Home Page - Elementary introduction to knot theory. Covers the existence of knots, Reidemeister moves and colorations.
• The KnotPlot Site - A visual exploration of mathematical knots.
• 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''.
• 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]
• Wolfram MathWorld: Knot Polynomial - Some knot invariants.

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