[Noisebridge-discuss] knot tying? braiding? weaving?

[Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson]

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On Oct 8, 2009, at 9:24 AM, Shannon Lee wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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.
>

I'm very willing to chat about knot theory too. It's one of those  
areas I'm always sniffing around the outer edges of without ever  
plunging into the research parts.

> 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.
>
> 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?
>
> 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?
>

+1 for 25th.




Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson, Dr.rer.nat
Postdoctoral researcher
mik at math.stanford.edu






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