Brunnian Links

Borromean Rings
Field: Algebra
Image Created By: Rob Scharein
Website: Symmetric Energy Pictures

Borromean Rings

These are Borromean Rings...

Basic Description

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• Animation, 6 rings

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Additional Resources

Make your own rings at http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-your-own-Borromean-rings-You-know-you-want-/

Knotplot site

Professor's powerpoint notes about the Brunnian Links, pear.math.pitt.edu/collDec.pdf (copy and paste in url)

Another animation http://knotplot.com/brunnian/brun6-rem3.mpg

Future Directions for this Page

• Interactive quiz of various unknotted vs. knotted examples
• Applet of a interactive 3-D model of the Borromean Rings and its unraveling (and higher orders of possible)
  

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