Definition:Vassiliev Invariant
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Definition
A Vassiliev invariant is an invariant whose purpose is to classify knots.
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Also see
- Results about Vassiliev invariants can be found here.
Source of Name
This entry was named for Victor Anatolyevich Vassiliev.
Historical Note
The concept of the Vassiliev invariant was devised by Victor Anatolyevich Vassiliev in $1989$, based on his work in singularity theory.
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