Knots

Knots

Every one knows from experience how to create a knot. We do this all the time, often unwittingly. Knots whose ends were glued together and their classification form the subject of a branch of Topology known as the Knot Theory. On the left there is a picture of the Left Trefoil knot. On the right there is the Right Trefoil knot. It’s impossible to continuously (i.e. stretching and twisting but without causing damage to either of them) deform one into another. However, it must be noted that the two knots are topologically equivalent in the sense that there exists a topological transformation that maps one into another. The two knots are mirror reflections of each other.

By:- Priyanka Gautam
(HOD) Department of Mathematics.
Uttaranchal (P.G.) College Of Bio-Medical Sciences & Hospital

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