Subject: [Fwd: Ribbon knots on the Web]
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 14:15:40 -0500
From: jim stasheff <stasheff@email.unc.edu>

For my under grad topology course, I've asked the students
to do a web search on various aspects of knot theory.
Any suggestions on adding terms to `ribbon knots'
so as to access the introductory mathematical aspects, especially
graphics?

thanks

Andrew Wilson wrote:
>
> I went to Google and looked up 'ribbon knots'.  In the first
> hundred-some results, there is plenty of information about ribbons and
> decoration, several pages on Celtic art, a great many articles
> mentioned on people's CVs (one of which was available for download; it
> went squarely over my head), a few titles of talks given at
> conferences, and...
>
> ...one page on torus knots.  Okay, these aren't ribbon knots per se,
> but it was interesting anyway.  Here it is:
>
> http://www.bangor.ac.uk/SculMath/image/torus.htm
>
> -- Andy