Thursday 29 October 2015

Get knotted - learning to knit

 I've been learning to knit. It is a clever technology for making knots. I posted about knot theory at the end of July. Pictures of knots are called graphs in maths. They don't mean the same as graphs in science lessons. They mean network diagrams. Such network diagrams are useful analytical tools.

 My best attempt to model the knots made by the moves shown above comes out like this. I think this is likely to be a looped trefoil knot. It may not even be a knot properly because it can be pulled out.