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Product Description: The aim of this book is to give as detailed a description as is possible of one of the most beautiful and complicated examples in low-dimensional topology. This example is a gateway to a new idea of higher dimensional algebra in which diagrams replace algebraic expressions and relationships between diagrams represent algebraic relations...read more

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9789814374491 | World Scientific Pub Co Inc, December 7, 2011, cover price $116.00 | About this edition: The aim of this book is to give as detailed a description as is possible of one of the most beautiful and complicated examples in low-dimensional topology.

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By J. Scott Carter (editor), Seiichi Kamada (editor), Louis H. Kauffman (editor), Akio Kawauchi (editor) and Toshitake Kohno (editor)

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9789812705938 | 1 edition (World Scientific Pub Co Inc, May 29, 2007), cover price $225.00

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Product Description: In this book the authors develop the theory of knotted surfaces in analogy with the classical case of knotted curves in 3-dimensional space. In the first chapter knotted surface diagrams are defined and exemplified; these are generic surfaces in 3-space with crossing information given...read more

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9780821805930 | Amer Mathematical Society, June 1, 1998, cover price $89.00 | About this edition: In this book the authors develop the theory of knotted surfaces in analogy with the classical case of knotted curves in 3-dimensional space.

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Product Description: This marvelous book of pictures illustrates the fundamental concepts of geometric topology in a way that is very friendly to the reader. The first chapter discusses the meaning of surface and space and gives the classification of orientable surfaces...read more

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9789810220822 | 2 sub edition (World Scientific Pub Co Inc, July 1, 1995), cover price $76.00 | About this edition: This marvelous book of pictures illustrates the fundamental concepts of geometric topology in a way that is very friendly to the reader.
9789810210502 | World Scientific Pub Co Inc, August 1, 1993, cover price $61.00

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9789810220662 | 2 edition (World Scientific Pub Co Inc, July 1, 1995), cover price $36.00 | About this edition: This marvelous book of pictures illustrates the fundamental concepts of geometric topology in a way that is very friendly to the reader.

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