Documents

We'll post various documents here.

Class Notes

These notes represent only some of what we have covered in class.

• Introduction
• Knot Tabulation slides
• General Results from Topology: Part 1 Part 2
• Diagrams and Invariants
• Seifert Surfaces
• Heegaard Splittings

Selected Solutions

• Midterm 1 Solutions
• Assignment 1 Solutions
• Assignment 2 Solutions

Projects

We will complete a final project for the course. Each student will make a 15-minute presentation, and submit a final paper.
Project List & Deadlines
Sign-up Sheet for Project Topics

Syllabus

Class syllabus

Links from Class

1. Pet Knots document for our course

2. Here's a readable account of the history of knot theory by one of the current leading researchers, Josef Przyticki.
   

3. Knot Atlas (encyclopedic website by Dror Bar-Natan)

4. William Irvine's lab (U. Chicago) ties knots out of water

5. Alexander horned sphere. image and video

6. Dissecting a cube into six congruent tetrahedra: on youtube

7. Videos from class on W., April 13:

   1. Not Knot
   2. Outside In (turning a sphere inside out)
   3. 3-d printing knots

Announcements

• [4/27/2016] Please submit all colloquium reactions by the last day of classes, so I can award gold stars.
• [4/25/2016, 4/27/2016] Presentations in class these days
• [4/27/2016] Bring your laptop to complete course evalutions.
• [5/5/2016] Presentations begin at 2pm.

Links

• WFU Math
• Need a letter of recommendation?