A certain topological problem of Gauss

MaRDI QIDQ2759870zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jerzy Mioduszewski

Publication date 13 June 2002

zbMATH Keywords

mathematical education

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of geometry (51-03) History of differential geometry (53-03) History of manifolds and cell complexes (57-03)

Review text

Let us consider a plane curve with a finite number of points of intersection with only double intersections and coming back to its beginning. Gauss had remarked that, starting from any knot and coming there back, the number of knots we meet is always even [\textit{G. F. Gauss}, Werke, Vol. 4, 271-285 (1900), see also Reprint Georg Olms Verlag Hildesheim (1976; Zbl 0516.01022)]. The author discusses the problem and its history, recalling also relatively new papers concerning the problem. The paper was presented during XIV School of History of Mathematics organized by the Commision for History of Mathematics (Polish Mathematical Society) in Zielona Góra.NEWLINENEWLINEFor the entire collection see [Zbl 0964.00033].

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