This book brings together twenty 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 knotters 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 eighteenth
century to the present day.
In view of the explosion of mathematical theories of knots in
the past decade, with consequential new and important scientific
applications, this book is timely in setting down a brief,
fragmentary history of mankind's oldest and most useful technical
and decorative device -- the knot.
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