¶ Simplest Knot
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Simplest Knot:
"Look at any picture, point your finger at any part of the picture, and ask yourself: Which aspect is that, and that, and that? That’s an area; or it’s a line; or it’s a crossing (a fix, a point). Crossings are loci. You may say, ‘That is too big to be a point;’ if so, you make an area by drawing a line around it. Here is the simplest knot drawn on the surface of a sphere:
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“This identifies topology and knots at the simplest limit case.”
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