Blogs about: Knot Theory
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An old corker on the unknotting of knots
I imagine many readers of this blog are familiar with the fact that you can knot a circle in 3-space, but not in 4-space. If you enjoy thinking about why that is true, please read on! Think of eucl… more →
Low Dimensional Topology
Mystery Knot
wrote 4 hours ago: Mystery Knot Time to play “guess that knot!” Observe the mystery knot above. What the he … more →
An old corker on the unknotting of knots
wrote 4 days ago: I imagine many readers of this blog are familiar with the fact that you can knot a circle in 3-space … more →
#MCM: The Eldredge Knot
wrote 2 weeks ago: This week’s #mcm is not a man, but something gentlemen do, or should do rather. My boyfriend f … more →
Introduction to Wild Arcs: the interesting stuff that can happen
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wrote 2 weeks ago: By “arc” I mean a topological embedding of the unit arc into or . If the embedding is ch … more →
My research
wrote 3 weeks ago: If you are interested, I’ll be posting on topics that deal with my current area of research he … more →
First Post: Welcome!
wrote 3 weeks ago: This blog is an experiment that is designed to make me keep my own research on track. What I hope to … more →
Unsolicited advise to young professors at heavy teaching load universities: Go to Research Conferences anyway!
wrote 3 weeks ago: This is coming to you from Ames, Iowa at the Spring American Mathematical Society Meeting. I am here … more →
the Blood Knot: a new twist on an old twist
wrote 1 month ago: it’s not really a new twist as i found this on Gary Borger‘s site years back but this no … more →
New connection between geometric and quantum realms
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wrote 1 month ago: A paper by Thomas Fiedler has just appeared on arXiv, describing a new link between geometric and qu … more →
Intrinsically knotted graphs on 21 edges
wrote 1 month ago: I was skimming through http://www.arxiv.org the other day and found this paper by a student named Ba … more →
Update on subadditivity of tunnel number
wrote 1 month ago: A few months ago, I wrote a blog post about the interesting phenomenon that the tunnel number of a c … more →
Fun for my Facebook Friends
wrote 1 month ago: Fun question one: can anyone see the relation between the following three figures? Note: I made a (s … more →
“Quick” recognition of the unknot
wrote 2 months ago: I recently attended a talk by Marc Lackenby on knot theory, and in particular the problem of “quickl … more →
The Bridge Spectrum
wrote 3 months ago: A knot in a three-manifold is said to be in bridge position with respect to a Heegaard surface if th … more →
Tying shoelaces
wrote 3 months ago: This TED talk shows how to properly tie your shoes so that it does not untie frequently. The key is … more →
my most nostalgic post so far ...
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wrote 3 months ago: Horoballs (note: all the spheres are tangent to the z-plane) and Anastasiia Tsvietkova Anastasiia Ts … more →
Morse-Novikov number and tunnel number
wrote 5 months ago: Someone recently pointed out to me a paper by A. J. Pajitnov [1] proving a very interesting connecti … more →
Arithmetic Topology
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wrote 5 months ago: One of my favorite viewpoints on math is that it is the study of metaphor. By abstracting an existi … more →
Dec 4: @The_Social_Life's #24daysofTSL w. RICCARDO TISCI f. @knotheory
wrote 5 months ago: DEC 4: TO ENTER GO TO #24DAYOFTSL X KNOT THEORY 18″ x 24″ China marker, acrylic, fx on n … more →
