From our DNA strands to fishing rods to art, knots are all around us. Ana Wright, a Davidson College assistant mathematics ...

You may not have heard of knot theory. But take it from Bill Menasco, a knot theorist of 35 years: This field of mathematics, rich in aesthetic beauty and intellectual challenges, has come a long way ...

Knot theory is the mathematical branch of topology that studies mathematical knots, which are defined as embeddings of a circle in 3-dimensional Euclidean space, R3. This is basically equivalent ...

In his article "The Combinatorial Revolution in Knot Theory," to appear in the December 2011 issue of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Sam Nelson describes a novel approach to ...

Knot theory began as an attempt to understand the fundamental makeup of the universe. In 1867, when scientists were eagerly trying to figure out what could possibly account for all the different kinds ...

The vortex theory of atoms was incorrect, but knot theory continues to this day as a branch of mathematics Tait was intrigued by Kelvin’s theory. Over a period of 25 years, and with the help of the ...

Knot Theory: Why Everything Tangles : The Bryant Park Project Knot theory: Science for people putting away the Christmas lights. The Bryant Park Project The Dagobah System ...

Knot theory belongs to the larger field of topology that deals with the properties of spaces when they undergo continuous deformations like twisting, bending, or stretching.

Knot theory seeks to encode information about knots — including what happens when they are altered in some way — into algebraic expressions that can distinguish one knot from another. While experts ...