A Circular History of Knot Theory
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Description: Starting with the flawed theory of Kelvin's knotted vortex to the work of Thurston, Jones and Witten, knot theory has circled back to its ancestral origins of theoretical physics.
A Circular History of Knot Theory In the nineteenth century physicists were speculating about the underlying principles of atoms. In 1867, Lord Kelvin put forward a comprehensive theory of atoms which, through heuristic reasoning, seemed to explain several of the essential qualities of the chemical elements. Kelvin's theory conjectured that atoms were knotted tubes of ether. (To a topologist a
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