I spent some time talking about knot theory with a mathematician friend ("talking" == "me asking naive questions and him being patient about it") and I was surprised by how little actual crossover there was between "knot theory" and actually tying knots.<div>
<br></div><div>From a knot theory perspective, for example, a strangle knot and a surgeon's knot are the same knot (I can demonstrate this in person, the next time someone sees me), but in practice they are wildly different knots with different purposes.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Shibari is something that comes up every time I start talking about having a knot class, so I just brought it up; it would certainly only be fun to include it if everybody was comfortable, so let's just concentrate on useful knots for the time being. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I was thinking of just doing two each of the basic useful types: A couple of bends, a couple of hitches, a couple of binding knots, and then some other useful or interesting misfits, and something fun like a monkey's fist?</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'll be around the space tomorrow evening, as well as Sunday afternoon, if anybody wants to talk about putting this on; Sunday afternoon might be a good time to have a knot workshop? Not this Sunday, I mean, but maybe in a couple of weeks -- say the 18th or the 25th? 4:00pm?</div>
<div><br></div><div>--S<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 9:09 AM, dpc <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:weasel@meer.net">weasel@meer.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">Kelly <<a href="mailto:hurtstotouchfire@gmail.com">hurtstotouchfire@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
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> I might attend this. Considerations which would heighten my interest<br>
> in such a workshop:<br>
</div>...<br>
<div class="im">> -Math. I am really fucking keen on knot theory. Unfortunately, this<br>
> doesn't necessarily relate to the workshop as it's currently shaping<br>
> up. But we could like... work it in somehow? Math is really great.<br>
> Maybe we could split this into a series.<br>
<br>
</div>this would be cool, but my topology is basically non-existant. (i was a<br>
scout however so can do all the basics :-)<br>
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