Fintushel-Stern knot
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Etymology
[edit]After Ronald Fintushel and Ronald J. Stern, seemingly because of their 1980 paper "Constructing Lens Spaces by Surgery on Knots".
Noun
[edit]Fintushel-Stern knot (plural Fintushel-Stern knots)
- The three-tangle pretzel knot with two right-handed twists in its first tangle, three left-handed ones in its second, and seven left-handed ones in its third.
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]Fintushel-Stern knot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia