Monthly Archives: February 2012

Last Friday Dr. Errthum and I discussed making the “Knee Bone” from a basic tangle with three positive crossings. To make a long story short, it didn’t work out. Turns out that in order to make the knee bone (without … Continue reading →

My project began as an exploration of rational tangles, and since then has ballooned out to cover other areas related to them. Since then it’s also began taking a look at braid groups, representations of braid groups (in particular Lawrence-Krammer … Continue reading →