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Formal Knot Theory
by Louis H. Kauffman

ISBN: 048645052X
Dover Publications Price: $14.95
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This exploration of combinatorics and knot theory is geared toward advanced undergraduates and graduate students. The author draws upon his work as a topologist to illustrate the relationships between knot theory and statistical mechanics, quantum theory, and algebra, as well as the role of knot theory in combinatorics. 1983 edition. Includes 51 illustrations.
Unabridged republication of the edition published by Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1983.

Table of Contents for Formal Knot Theory
1. Introduction
2. State, Trails, and the Clock Theorem
3. State Polynomials and the Duality Conjecture
4. Knots and Links
5. Axiomatic Link Calculations
6. Curliness and the Alexander Polynomial
7. The Coat of Many Colors
8. Spanning Surfaces
9. The Genus of Alternative Links
10. Ribbon Knots and the Arf Invariant
Appendix. The Classical Alexander Polynomial
References

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