Definition:Reidemeister Move
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Definition
The Reidemeister moves are one of three operations on knots which encapsulate the intuitive notion of equivalent knots.
The three Reidemeister moves are shown below.
Also see
- Results about Reidemeister moves can be found here.
Source of Name
This entry was named for Kurt Werner Friedrich Reidemeister.
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