Low-dimensional topology, hyperbolic geometry and 3-manifolds, knot theory, contact geometry, curve complex and mapping class group. Low-dimensional topology, hyperbolic geometry and 3-manifolds, knot ...

With hundreds of worked examples, exercises and illustrations, this detailed exposition of the theory of Vassiliev knot invariants opens the field to students with little or no knowledge in this area.

This volume provides a self-contained introduction to applications of loop representations, and the related topic of knot theory, in particle physics and quantum gravity. These topics are of ...