1 Surface-knots.- 2 Knots.- 3 Motion pictures.- 4 Surface diagrams.- 5 Handle surgery and ribbon surface-knots.- 6 Spinning construction.- 7 Knot concordance.- 8 Quandles.- 9 Quandle homology groups and invariants.- 10 2-Dimensional braids.- Bibliography.- Epilogue.- Index.
“Kamada provides a discussion of a great deal of important machinery and current approaches to both knot theory in the more familiar and prosaic sense as well as the more exotic surface-knot theory, the book’s main focus. … is well-written, theorems are plentiful and proven, there are a huge number of diagrams and pictures … there are lots of examples, and there are even exercises. This book indeed looks like a good place to learn about surface knots in 4-space.” (Michael Berg, MAA Reviews, December, 2017)
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