{"id":313,"date":"2010-06-07T12:48:51","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T10:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2010\/06\/07\/introducing_knot_theory\/"},"modified":"2010-06-07T12:48:51","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T10:48:51","slug":"introducing_knot_theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2010\/06\/07\/introducing_knot_theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Knot Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is too silly not to do&#8230;<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.math.arizona.edu\/~savitt\/GTM\/lickorish.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"182\" alt=\"\"><\/td>\n<td>If I were a Springer-Verlag Graduate Text in Mathematics, I would be  W.B.R. Lickorish&#8217;s <b><i>An Introduction to Knot Theory<\/i><\/b>. I am an introduction to mathematical Knot Theory; the theory of knots and links of simple closed curves in three-dimensional space. I consist of a selection of topics which graduate students have found to be a successful introduction to the field. Three distinct techniques are employed;  Geometric Topology Manoeuvres, Combinatorics, and Algebraic Topology.Which Springer GTM would <i>you<\/i> be? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.arizona.edu\/~savitt\/GTM.html\">The Springer GTM Test<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>(HT <a href=\"http:\/\/evolvingthoughts.net\/2010\/06\/07\/but-i-dont-know-any-graph-theory\/\">Modern Graph Theory<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is too silly not to do&#8230; If I were a Springer-Verlag Graduate Text in Mathematics, I would be W.B.R. Lickorish&#8217;s An Introduction to Knot Theory. I am an introduction to mathematical Knot Theory; the theory of knots and links &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2010\/06\/07\/introducing_knot_theory\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silliness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}