Moran, Siegfried The mathematical theory of knots and braids. An introduction. (English) Zbl 0528.57001 North-Holland Mathematics Studies, 82. Amsterdam-New York-Oxford: North-Holland. XII, 295 p. $ 42.50; Dfl. 100.00 (1983). Page: −5 −4 −3 −2 −1 ±0 +1 +2 +3 +4 +5 Show Scanned Page Cited in 14 Documents MSC: 57-01 Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to manifolds and cell complexes 57M25 Knots and links in the \(3\)-sphere (MSC2010) 57M05 Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus 20F34 Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) 20F36 Braid groups; Artin groups Keywords:free groups; presentations of groups; fundamental group; Seifert-Van Kampen theorem; knots; links; braids; braid group; group rings; free differential calculus; Alexander matrices; elementary ideals; Alexander polynomials of knots and links; matrix representations of braid groups; Hermitian symmetry of Alexander matrices; HNN-extension; amphicheiral knots; plaits; prime knots; unsplittable links Citations:Zbl 0305.57013 PDFBibTeX XML