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01: Braids and Knots (3 min. 6 sec.)
Joan Birman, Columbia University. Recorded in New York City, September 1990
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02: Symmetries in Knots(5 min. 34 sec.)
Raymond Lickorish, Cambridge University. Recorded in Los Angeles, June 1990
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03: Knots Don't Cancel (3 min. 15 sec.)
John Conway (1937-2020), Princeton University. Recorded in Princeton, March 1990
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04: Ribbon Knots (2 min. 14 sec.)
Robion Kirby, University of California, Berkeley. Recorded in Berkeley, May 1990
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05: Knots to Narnia (6 min. 40 sec.)
William Thurston (1946-2012), University of Caliornia, Berkeley. Recorded in Berkeley, March 1992
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06: Knots to Narnia - in classi (3 min.)
William Thurston, University of Caliornia, Berkeley. Bill died August 21, 2012. Recorded in Berkeley, March 1992
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07: Knots and the Poincaré Conjecture (1 min. 20 sec.)
Andrew Casson, University of California, Berkeley (Now at Yale University). Recorded in Berkeley, May 1990
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08: The Birth of the Jones Polynomial (3min. 52 sec.)
Joan Birman, Columbia University. Recorded in New York City, September 1990 (Note: in these images, the left and right-hand trefoils are reversed.)
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09: The Knot on my Shirt (1 min. 54 sec.)
Vaughan Jones, University of California, Berkeley. Recorded in Berkeley, March 1992
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10: Knots and Statistical Mechanics (4 min. 25 sec.)
Vaughan Jones (1952-2020), University of California, Berkeley. Recorded in Berkeley, March 1992.
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11: Knots in DNA Analysis (2 min. 38 sec.)
Nicholas Cozzarelli (1938-2006), Department of Molecular Biology, University of California, Berkeley. Recorded in Berkeley, May 1990 (Pam Davis assisted with the recording.)
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12: Topology of Kinetoplast DNA (2 min. 40 sec.)
Sylvia Spengler, Program in Mathematics and Molecular Biology, University of California, Berkeley. Recorded in Berkeley, May 1990
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13: Four Shoe Knots
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14: Knotted Texts
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A Day in the Life of a Knot (12 minutes)
1990, with Pam Davis.
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Knots to a Mathematician
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