Knot Theory 2: Reidemester to the Rescue
May. 20th, 2005 03:59 pmI'm going to try to explain this next bit without any pictures. That may be a mistake; the texts I've seen on the subject all come profusely supplied with diagrams. In particular, the "Reidemeister moves" I try to describe below are usually depicted rather than described. I hope I've made things clear enough; if not, it may help to play around a bit with rubber bands and bits of string. (If it still isn't clear, feel free to complain; I'm willing to try again...)
( From Three To Two )
Deep breath
Okay. With that in place, we can go on to the problem of constructing invariants. Stay tuned, if you're still interested.
Deep breath
Okay. With that in place, we can go on to the problem of constructing invariants. Stay tuned, if you're still interested.