The Unknotting Problem

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-32162-2_8MaRDI QIDQ2826811zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Louis Kauffman

Publication date 18 October 2016

Published in Open Problems in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32162-2_8

zbMATH Keywords

culpritkernel detectionknotssurveyunknottingVassiliev invariants

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to manifolds and cell complexes (57-02)

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• The prospects for a monist theory of non-causal explanation in science and mathematics

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