Knot Theory and its Applications Book

	Introduction	1
1	Fundamental Concepts of Knot Theory	5
2	Knot Tables	25
3	Fundamental Problems of Knot Theory	40
4	Classical Knot Invariants	47
5	Seifert Matrices	75
6	Invariants from the Seifert matrix	104
7	Torus Knots	132
8	Creating Manifolds from Knots	152
9	Tangles and 2-Bridge Knots	171
10	The Theory of Braids	197
11	The Jones Revolution	217
12	Knots via Statistical Mechanics	248
13	Knot Theory in Molecular Biology	267
14	Graph Theory Applied to Chemistry	284
15	Vassiliev Invariants	300
	Appendix	325
	Appendix (I): a table of knots	326
	Appendix (II): Alexander and Jones polynomials	327
	Notes	329
	Bibliography	333
	Index	337