SMALL PRINT:MOST OF us curse knots – in our shoe laces, in long tresses, in our ties and in streams of traffic. But some people celebrate them, studying them with delight and disecting them with a ...
An idea discarded more than a century ago, conceived by Lord Kelvin when he imagined atoms as knots in the ether, has resurfaced at the heart of a new theory that seeks to explain why the universe is ...
You may not have heard of knot theory. But take it from Bill Menasco, a knot theorist of 35 years: This field of mathematics, rich in aesthetic beauty and intellectual challenges, has come a long way ...