Abstract
A knot is just a closed loop in a three-dimensional space. Strangely enough, there is a notion of factoring knots and even a prime factoring theorem, due to Horst Schubert. We hope that our presentation of this classic result will be accessible to advanced undergraduates.
Recommended Citation
Sullivan, Michael C. "Knot Factoring." (Apr 2000).
Comments
Published in American Mathematical Monthly, 107(4), 297-315. Copyright © 2000 The Mathematical Association of America.