You pull strings in bitework through reinforcement. Let's say you have a Drop problem. You find the strings around the behavior that are holding up or stopping the drop and then you tease them a bit, ...

IntroductionThis is a written version of notes I took when I first started studying knot theory. The theme of the first lecture is "The Science of Knots." Starting from knots in everyday life, we will ...

SMALL PRINT:MOST OF us curse knots – in our shoe laces, in long tresses, in our ties and in streams of traffic. But some people celebrate them, studying them with delight and disecting them with a ...

We all know the basics of knots. They rely on friction to cinch against themselves or an object, they reduce the breaking strength of a line and a good one is easy to remove but what about randomly ...

A Q&A with a veteran knot theorist discusses the strange origins of the discipline, as well as its modern-day applications. This field of mathematics, rich in aesthetic beauty and intellectual ...