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	Knots on the Web (Peter Suber) URL: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/knotlink.htm ODP description: A collection of knotting resources on the web. Sections on knot tying, mathematical knot theory, knot art, and knot books. Page description: The most comprehensive collection of knotting resources on the web. Sections on knot tying, mathematical knot theory, knot art, knot discussion forums, knot software, knot videos, and knot books. Also a knot gallery.
	String Figure Mathematics (or Trivial Knot Theory) URL: http://website.lineone.net/~m.p/sf/menu.html ODP description: A mathematical analysis of string figures. Theorems, examples, illustrations and conjectures on patterns created with an unknotted string. Page title: The Survival, Origin and Mathematics of String Figures
	Cook's Borromean Ring Links URL: http://paradise.caltech.edu/~cook/Workshop/Math/Borromean/Borrring.html ODP description: Links to pages and two outlines of proofs that show the Borromean rings can't be made from circular rings.
	(UK) University of Liverpool URL: http://www.liv.ac.uk/~su14/knotgroup.html ODP description: Knot Theory Research Group. Page title: Liverpool Pure Maths: Knot Theory
	The Geometry Junkyard: Knot Theory URL: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/junkyard/knot.html ODP description: A page of links on geometric questions arising from knot embeddings.
	History of Knot Theory URL: http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~aar/knots/index.htm ODP description: Biographies of early knot theorists. Many early papers on knot theory (in pdf format) including papers by Tait, Kirkman, Little and Thomson. Page title: History of knot theory
	Knot Theory URL: http://www.mapleapps.com/categories/mathematics/Knot%20theory/html/Knots.htm ODP description: Covers techniques of distinguishing knots, types, applications, and Conway notations. Includes illustrations. Page title: Math Applications, Resources, Tutorials and More - Maple Application Center - Maplesoft
	Megamath Knot Theory Page URL: http://www.c3.lanl.gov/mega-math/gloss/knots/knots.html ODP description: An introductory overview of knot theory. Page title: Ideas, Concepts and Definitions
	Knot Theory Invariants: The HOMFLY Polynomial URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/12295/data/Invariants/Articles/HOMFLY.html ODP description: A brief article on the HOMFLY polynomial and how it is calculated.
	A Third Year Lecture Course on Knots URL: http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/~bjs/MA3F2-page.html ODP description: Includes examples, solutions, knot tables, pretty pictures. Course material includes: colouring, Alexander and Jones polynomials, tangles and braids. Page title: The Knot Theory MA3F2 page
	Thomas Fink (Tie Knots) URL: http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~tmf20/ ODP description: Thomas Fink and Yong Mao, used ideas from statistical mechanics to show there are 85 ways to tie a tie. They discovered a number of new aesthetically pleasing tie knots. This page has links to their original papers and to their book ``The 85 Ways to Tie a Tie''. Page title: Thomas Fink's Homepage
	Using Topology to Probe the Hidden Action of Enzymes URL: http://www.ams.org/notices/199505/sumners.pdf ODP description: Describes how knot theory is used to understand the action of enzymes that affect DNA topolgy.
	New Knot Tables URL: http://members.tripod.com/vismath7/knotab/ ODP description: Covers families of knots of p, pq, p1q, p11q, p111q, pqr, pq1r types. Explains properties and notations. Includes diagram photos. Page title: NEW KNOT TABLES
	Morwen Thistlethwaite's Home Page URL: http://www.math.utk.edu/~morwen/ ODP description: Has many beautiful images of symmetric knots, and information about a computer program called Knotscape (compiled binaries for Linux, Sunos and Alpha platforms). Includes pictures of knots with 13 crossings or less.
	Knotscape URL: http://www.math.utk.edu/~morwen/knotscape.html ODP description: By Jim Hoste and Morwen Thistlethwaite. Provides convenient access to tables of knots. Linux, Solaris. Page title: Document Title
	Pictures of Knots URL: http://www.math.unl.edu/~mbrittenham2/ldt/table9.gif ODP description: A table of graphics of all knots of up to nine crossings. Also includes pictures of some links.
	A Knot Theory Primer URL: http://www.inst.bnl.gov/~wei/contents.html ODP description: Comprehensive knot theory site focusing on the knot classification problem and knot tabulations. Has a tabulation of knots with up to 12 crossings. Page title: Contents
	A Circular History of Knot Theory URL: http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~menasco/Knottheory.html ODP description: Starting with the flawed theory of Kelvin's knotted vortex to the work of Thurston, Jones and Witten, knot theory has circled back to its ancestral origins of theoretical physics. Page title: 1
	Knot Theory URL: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/topics/KnotTheory.html ODP description: An overview of knot theory from Mathworld Page title: Knot Theory -- from Wolfram MathWorld
	Geometry and the Imagination URL: http://math.dartmouth.edu/~doyle/docs/gi/gi/gi.html ODP description: Has a small section on knot theory at an introductory level. Also has sections on orbifolds, polyhedra and topology. Page description: Geometry and the Imagination