Download or read book History and Science of Knots written by John Christopher Turner and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1996 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In view of the explosion of mathematical theories of knots in the past decade, with consequential applications, this book sets down a brief, fragmentary history of mankind's oldest and most useful technical and decorative device - the knot.