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Untangling Why Knots Are Important

The Joy of Why

CHAPTER

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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