Knots: Mathematics with a twist by Alexei Sossinsky, Harvard University Press, $24.95/£16.95, ISBN 0674009444 Reviewed by Mike Holderness
POSTMODERN commentators talk about knots on television, observes Alexei Sossinsky, “with all their usual nerve and incompetence”.
So this professor of mathematics at Moscow State University has written a corrective exposition of the mathematics of knots. His aim is to appeal not only to mathematicians, but also to those “who feel they have no aptitude for math as a resultof their experience in school but whose natural curiosity remains intact”.
He has not entirely succeeded in this laudable aim. I suspect…
