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Untangling Why Knots Are Important

The Joy of Why

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The Perco Pair

In order to understand that area of knot theory, you need to understand geometry and algebra. The fundamental group is realized as a set of isometries of hyperbolic space. So it brings together a whole lot of different fields of mathematics with the purpose of understanding knots.

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