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Nov 27, 2024
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2020-2021 Catalog [ARCHIVED PUBLICATION] Use the dropdown above to select the current catalog.
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MATH148 PZ - Knot Theory
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Staff (Pitzer)
Offered: Alternate years
Description: An introduction to theory of knots and links from combinatorial, algebraic, and geometric perspectives. Topics will include knot diagrams, p-colorings, Alexander, Jones, and HOMFLY polynomials, Seifert surfaces, genus, Seifert matrices, the fundamental group, representations of knot groups, covering spaces, surgery on knots, and important families of knots.
Prerequisite(s): MATH073 HM
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