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Includes bibliographical references.

Tutorial on the braid groups / Dale Rolfsen -- Simplicial objects and homotopy groups / Jie Wu -- Introduction to configuration spaces and their applications / Frederick R. Cohen -- Configuration spaces, braids, and robotics / Robert Ghrist -- Braids and magnetic fields / Mitchell A. Berger -- Braid group cryptography / David Garber.


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Braid theory.
Representations of groups.
Algebraic topology.


Electronic books.

QA612.23 / .B73 2010eb

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