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 ...

The Meereenese Knot that troubled George R.R. Martin in the past is reportedly coming back to haunt him while he's writing ...

Unknotting knot theory New techniques are beginning to unravel the mysteries of knots, revealing a great mathematical superstructure in the process ...

Far from being an abstract mathematical curiosity, knot theory has driven many findings in math and beyond.

In knot theory, quantities that describe the properties of knots are called “invariants”. The dream of knot theorists is to find a quantity like the proton number that can classify any knot based on ...

There's a mathematical theory to cover everything - even the tangles in your fishing line.