Definition:Alternating Diagram/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Alternating Diagram
Knots with alternating diagrams were originally studied by Peter Guthrie Tait.
He conjectured that such a knot cannot be reduced to the unknot.
This was subsequently proved by using the Jones polynomial.
Sources
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): knot theory
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): knot theory