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History And Science Of Knots

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This text brings together 20 essays on diverse topics in the history and science of knots. It is divided into five parts, which deal respectively with knots in prehistory and antiquity, non-European traditions, working knots, the developing science of knots, and decorative and other aspects of knots. Its authors include archaeologists who write on knots found in digs of ancient sites (one describes the knots used by the recently discovered Ice Man); practical knottiers who have studied the history and uses of knots at sea, for fishing and for various life support activities; a historian of lace; a computer scientist writing on computer classification of doilies; and mathematicians who describe the history of knot theories from the 18th century to the present day. In view of the explosion of mathematical theories of knots in the past decade, with consequential applications, this book sets down a brief, fragmentary history of mankind's oldest and most useful technical and decorative device - the knot.
Release date Australia
May 1st, 1996
Audience
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Contributors
  • Edited by Charles Warner
  • Edited by John C. Turner
  • Edited by Pieter Van De Griend
Pages
464
Dimensions
159x280x28
ISBN-13
9789810224691
Product ID
5846017

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