Knot/link at Math Glossary

What is it? A link is a collection of disjoint circles lying in a 3-manifold, often but not always Euclidean 3-space or the 3-sphere. A knot is link which happens to be a single circle. Manifold topologists usually study tame knots and links, which can be represented

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