Sorting complicated knots
Thursday, July 6, 2017 - 10:33
in Mathematics & Economics
From bow ties and shoelaces to sailing boats and climbing ropes, knots are not only very useful for our daily lives, but for mathematics too. Researchers have reported a new mathematical operation to catalog a special kind of mathematical knots, known as Legendrian singular knots. Their study deals with knots that go well beyond the annoying entanglement of headphone wires.