Math 4750: Introduction to Knot Theory

Semester
Spring
Year offered
2021

This class gives an overview of both classical and modern results in Knot theory: the Kauffman bracket and the Jones polynomial; the Alexander polynomial; Khovanov homology; Seifert surfaces; examples and classes of knots: torus knots, alternating knots, hyperbolic knots; intrinsic knotting of graphs; colorings and relation to combinatorics of planar graphs; knotting and linking in higher dimensions.