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Author: Colin Adams
Why knot: knots, molecules and stick numbers
Knots crop up all over the place, from tying a shoelace to molecular structure, but they are also elegant mathematical objects.
Colin Adams
asks when is a molecule knot a molecule? and what happens if you try to build a knot out of sticks?
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