Classical Knot Theory
Geometric Topology
2012-06-22 v1
Abstract
This paper is a very brief introduction to knot theory. It describes knot coloring by quandles, the fundamental group of a knot complement, and handle-decompositions of knot complements.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1206.4741,
title = {Classical Knot Theory},
author = {J. Scott Carter},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.4741},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
manuscript of paper in the journal Symmetry. There are some nice pictures here