@inbook {IOPORT.00956615, author = {Kauffman, Louis H.}, title = {Tangle complexity and the topology of the Chinese rings.}, year = {1996}, booktitle = {Mathematical approaches to biomolecular structure and dynamics. Proceedings of the 1994 IMA summer program on molecular biology}, isbn = {0-387-94838-4}, pages = {1-10}, publisher = {New York, NY: Springer}, abstract = {The author studies a problem in complexity of untanglement of graph imbeddings in Euclidean 3-space, related to the Chinese rings puzzle. Examples are described that lead to the conjecture that the complexity of untanglement rises exponentially as a function of the structural complexity of the associated graphs. There are possible connections to biological and physical systems.}, reviewer = {A.T.White (Kalamazoo)}, identifier = {00956615}, }