Entanglement

The Borromean rings are an intertwining of three components.

An intertwining of a circle with a clover leaf loop .

In knot theory , a branch of mathematics , an entanglement (also a link or concatenation ) is a set of knots that do not intersect, but that can be intertwined.

The projection of a link onto a plane is known as a link diagram .

The mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauß found the link number to be one of the first invariants for links.

Examples

• Hopf interlocking
• Whitehead Entanglement
• Borromean rings

Web links

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