Synopses & Reviews
Colin Adams, well-known for his advanced research in topology and knot theory, is the author of this exciting new book that brings his findings and his passion for the subject to a more general audience. He has been awarded the MAA Distinguished Teaching Award, has served as MAA Polya Lecturer, and was most recently awarded the prestigious Robert Foster Cherry Great Teaching Award by Baylor University. This beautifully illustrated comic book is appropriate for undergraduates, high school students in math clubs or honors math courses and is perfect for the lay math enthusiast. Each copy of Why Knot? includes a plastic manipulative called the Tangle (www.tangletoys.com). The Tangle is the ultimate tool for knot theory because knots are defined in mathematics as being "closed on a loop." Readers use the Tangle to complete the experiments throughout the brief volume. First entry in Key College Publishing's Math is Fun series.