HISTORY OF KNOT THEORY
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maintained by Jozef Przytycki
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BIOGRAPHIES OF EARLY KNOT THEORISTS
Links to biographical entries in St. Andrews Mathematics History Archive
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF P.G.TAIT
EARLY PAPERS ON KNOT THEORY
- A.Cayley, On a problem of arrangements,
Proc. Royal Soc. Edinburgh, Vol. 9, 98 (1876-7), 338-342
- Crum Brown, On a case of interlacing surfaces,
Proc. Royal Soc. Edinburgh, Vol. 13, 121 (1885-6), 382-386
- M.G.Haseman
On knots, with a census of the amphicheirals with twelve crossings
Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh, 52 (1917-8), 235-255
also Ph.D thesis, Bryn Mawr College, 1918
printed by Neill & Co. Limited, 212 Causewayside, Edinburgh - 1918.
- M.G.Haseman Amphicheiral knots
Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh 52 (1919-20), 597-602.
- T.P.Kirkman
The enumeration, description, and construction
of knots of fewer than 10 crossings
Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh 32 (1883-4), 281-309.
- T.P.Kirkman
The 364 unifilar knots of ten crossings, enumerated and described
Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh 32 (1884-5),
483-491. Two appendices in Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh 13, p. 359.
- T.P.Kirkman
Examples upon the Reading of the Circle or Circles of a Knot
Proc. Royal Soc. Edinburgh, Vol. ?? (1885-6), 693-698
- T.P.Kirkman
On the twists of Listing and Tait
Proc. Royal Soc. Edinburgh, Vol. 13, 120 (1884-5), 363-367
- T.P.Kirkman
Demonstration of Theorems A,B,C etc.
Proc. Royal Soc. Edinburgh, Vol. 13, 120 (1884-5), 359-363
- T.P.Kirkman, On the linear section PR of a knot M_n,
which passes through two crossings P and R, which meets no edge,
and which cuts away a (3+r)-gonal mesh of M_n,
Proc. Royal Soc. Edinburgh, Vol. 13, 121 (1884-5), 514-522
- C.N.Little, On knots, with a census for order 10,
Trans. Connecticut Academy Sci. 18, Vol. 7 (1885), 27-43 (1-17 ??).
- C.N.Little,
Non-Alternate knots of order eight and nine,
Trans. Royal. Soc. Edinburgh 35, 1890
- C.N.Little Alternate +/-Knots of order eleven
Trans. Royal. Soc. Edinburgh 36 (1890-1), 253-255.
- C.N.Little, Non-Alternate +/-Knots,
Trans. Royal. Soc. Edinburgh 39 (1898-9), 771-778.
- F.Meyer Ueber algebraische Knoten
Proc. Royal Soc. Edinburgh, Vol. 13, 97 (1885-6), 931-946
- P.G.Tait, Some elementary properties
of closed plane curves, Messenger of Mathematics,
New Series, No.69, 1877, (communicated at the 1876 Meeting of the
British Association).
- P.G.Tait, On knots,
Proc. Royal Soc. Edinburgh, Vol. 9, 97 (1876-7), 306-317
- P.G.Tait, On links,
Proc. Royal Soc. Edinburgh, Vol. 9, 98 (1876-7), 321-332
- P.G.Tait, Sevenfold knottiness,
Proc. Royal Soc. Edinburgh, Vol. 9, 98 (1876-7), 363-366
- P.G.Tait Applications of the theorem that
two closed plane curves intersect an even number of times
Proc. Royal Soc. Edinburgh, Vol. 9, 97 (1876-7), 237-246
- P.G.Tait
Note on the measure of beknottedness
Proc. Royal Soc. Edinburgh, Vol. 9, 97 (1876-7), 289-298
- P.G.Tait
On amphicheiral forms and their relations
Proc. Royal Soc. Edinburgh, Vol. 9, 98 (1876-7), 391-392
- P.G.Tait Preliminary note on a new method of
investigating the properties of knots
Proc. Royal Soc. Edinburgh, Vol. 9, 98 (1876-7), 403
- P.G.Tait Additional remarks on knots
Proc. Royal Soc. Edinburgh, Vol. 9, 98 (1876-7), 405
- P.G.Tait On knots I.
Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh 28 (1876-7), 145-190
- P.G.Tait On knots II.
Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh 32 (1883-4), 327-342
- P.G.Tait On knots III.
Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh 32 (1884-5),493-506
- P.G.Tait, Johann Benedict Listing,
Nature 27 (1882-83), 316.
- P.G.Tait, Listing's Topologie
(Introductory address to the Edinburgh
Mathematical Society, November 9, 1883), Philosophical Magazine,
January, 1884.
- W.Thomson Vortex statics
Proc. Royal Soc. Edinburgh Vol. 9, 94 (1875-6), 59-73
BOOKS AND PAPERS ABOUT THE HISTORY OF KNOT THEORY