Timeline for Applications of knot theory
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| May 20, 2018 at 22:54 | history | protected | YCor | ||
| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:58 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jun 4, 2013 at 20:17 | answer | added | Arnaud Zimmern | timeline score: 9 | |
| Feb 7, 2013 at 15:23 | vote | accept | Sam Nead | ||
| Feb 2, 2013 at 14:35 | answer | added | Ronnie Brown | timeline score: 7 | |
| Dec 20, 2010 at 9:46 | answer | added | Bruno Martelli | timeline score: 21 | |
| Dec 19, 2010 at 19:34 | answer | added | j.c. | timeline score: 10 | |
| Dec 19, 2010 at 18:32 | answer | added | Ian Agol | timeline score: 8 | |
| Dec 5, 2010 at 17:01 | comment | added | Sam Nead | @Kevin - I always thought that connect sums were supposed to form molecules? Is there a canonical reference? After looking at the Wikipedia page I found the following very romantic article: southalabama.edu/mathstat/personal_pages/silver/scottish.pdf | |
| Dec 5, 2010 at 16:28 | comment | added | Sam Nead | @Andrew - you need to fix your hagfish link. Also, I am definitely mentioning that application of knot theory next time I teach the class. youtube.com/watch?v=RrPvMMkQkk0 | |
| Dec 4, 2010 at 6:28 | comment | added | Andrew Ranicki | I have put together some of the source material on knots and their applications on my home page maths.ed.ac.uk/~aar/knots | |
| Dec 3, 2010 at 23:55 | answer | added | Joseph O'Rourke | timeline score: 23 | |
| Dec 3, 2010 at 23:19 | comment | added | José Figueroa-O'Farrill | @Kevin: And not just a nice story, but in fact both surprisingly modern and very fruitful. Fruitful in that it directly influenced Tait to start his enumeration of knots, which is perhaps the birth of knot theory. And modern in that it is perhaps one of the first instances of an idea which is periodically revived. Kelvin postulated that atoms were knots in the ether, but replacing "knots" by "topologically stable configurations" and "ether" by "field", then this is the idea behind the Skyrme model for hadrons, etc... | |
| Dec 3, 2010 at 23:11 | answer | added | Ryan Budney | timeline score: 19 | |
| Dec 3, 2010 at 23:09 | history | edited | Sam Nead | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
Made second part of the question clearer
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| Dec 3, 2010 at 23:00 | answer | added | Ryan Budney | timeline score: 17 | |
| Dec 3, 2010 at 22:46 | answer | added | Qiaochu Yuan | timeline score: 14 | |
| Dec 3, 2010 at 22:30 | comment | added | Kevin H. Lin | Lord Kelvin had hypothesized that atoms were made of knots. Moreover, if I remember correctly, I think the idea was that molecules are linked knots. I guess this is not really an application since it turned out to be untrue... It is still a nice story though. | |
| Dec 3, 2010 at 22:23 | history | asked | Sam Nead | CC BY-SA 2.5 |