author: erica flapan

Knots, Molecules, and the Universe

... books. I used ideas from Jeffrey Weeks' wonderful book The Shape of Space to introduce the geometry and topology of 2- and 3-manifolds; I used ideas from Colin C. Adams' excellent book The Knot Book to expose students to knot theory ...

When Topology Meets Chemistry: A Topological Look at Molecular Chirality

... nucleotide subunits. The letter R indicates the location where the bases are attached to the sugars. (For a more detailed discussion of the topology of DNA, see Chapter 7.) We prove that the DNA figure eight knot is topologically ...

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