Math 4096: Knot theory
Fall Semester 2016
| Meets: | Tue/Thu 3:30-4:50 in Wachman Hall, room 10 |
| Instructor: | David Futer |
| Office: | 1026 Wachman Hall |
| Office Hours: | Tue/Thu 1:30-3:00, or by appointment |
| E-mail: | dfuter at temple.edu |
| Phone: | (215) 204-7854 |
| TA: | Danielle Walsh |
| Office: | 523 Wachman Hall |
| Office Hours: | Wed 10:30-12:30, Thu 11:00-12:0, or by appointment |
| E-mail: | danielle.marie.walsh at temple.edu |
Important links
Handouts, articles, and other materials
- The odd origins of knot theory
- Marc Lackenby's paper on Reidemeister moves
- Evelyn Lamb article on the Olympic rings
- Colin Adams (a.k.a. Sir Randolph Bacon III) talking about sailing and Dowker code
- Conway's ZIP Proof of the classification of surfaces
- Hyperbolic games, including mazes and pool on surfaces
- Curved Spaces, the program where we got to fly through different 3-manifolds
- Not Knot, the video about knot and link complements
- Andrei Malyutin's brand new paper on the predominance of hyperbolic knots
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