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		walterlb on Oct 31, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why mathematicians study knots I saw "The Ashley Book of Knots" mentioned on another post, and it has some interesting history of knots. Especially that the introduction of books led to sailors spending more time not knotting.

abnry on Oct 31, 2022 [–]

The book is also open domain, so anyone interested should look it up.

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