Definition:Alexander Polynomial/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Alexander Polynomial
The Alexander polynomial was discovered in $1928$ by James Waddell Alexander II using homology theory.
In the late $1960$s, John Horton Conway discovered a simpler and explicit method of finding the Alexander polynomial by using transformations applied to the planar representation of the knot.
Sources
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): knot polynomial
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): knot polynomial