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    Morwen Bernard Thistlethwaite (born 5 June 1945) is a knot theorist and professor of mathematics for the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He has...
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  • (1918–1996), American journalist Matt Thistlethwaite (born 1972), Australian politician Morwen Thistlethwaite, knot theorist and professor of mathematics...
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  • Morwen may refer to: Morwen Thistlethwaite, knot theorist and professor of mathematics Morwen Eledhwen, the wife of Húrin and the mother of his children...
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    Dowker–Thistlethwaite (DT) notation or code, for a knot is a sequence of even integers. The notation is named after Clifford Hugh Dowker and Morwen Thistlethwaite...
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  • link is an alternating polynomial. This property was proved by Morwen Thistlethwaite in 1987. Another proof of this last property is due to Hernando...
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    "descent through nested sub-groups" was found by Morwen Thistlethwaite; details of Thistlethwaite's algorithm were published in Scientific American in...
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    the fourth of five alternating 6-crossing links identified by Morwen Thistlethwaite in a list of all prime links with up to 13 crossings. In the tables...
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    conjecture. Morwen Thistlethwaite, Louis Kauffman and K. Murasugi proved the first two Tait conjectures in 1987 and Morwen Thistlethwaite and William...
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    mathematicians such as Burde and Bar-Natan). Jim Hoste, Jeff Weeks, and Morwen Thistlethwaite used computer searches to count all knots with 16 or fewer crossings...
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    solved, the most recent being the Flyping conjecture, proved by Morwen Thistlethwaite and William Menasco in 1991.[citation needed] Dynamics of a Particle...
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  • conjecture, a 15-crossing amphicheiral knot, was found by Jim Hoste, Morwen Thistlethwaite, and Jeff Weeks in 1998. However, Tait's conjecture was proven true...
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    Chuu-Lian Terng Joseph Terwilliger Gerald Teschl Bernhard Thalheim Morwen Thistlethwaite George B. Thomas Rekha R. Thomas Richard Thomas Abigail Thompson...
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    William W.; Thistlethwaite, Morwen, eds. (2005), Handbook of Knot Theory, Elsevier, ISBN 978-0-444-51452-3 Menasco and Thistlethwaite's handbook surveys...
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  • conjecture was proved by Louis Kauffman, Kunio Murasugi (村杉 邦男), and Morwen Thistlethwaite in 1987, using the Jones polynomial. A geometric proof, not using...
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    flypes. This is the Tait flyping conjecture, proven in 1991 by Morwen Thistlethwaite and William Menasco. Reidemeister moves are another commonly studied...
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  • turned out to be true for alternating knots, but in 1998, Jim Hoste, Morwen Thistlethwaite, and Jeff Weeks discovered a 15-crossing nonalternating achiral...
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    the Čech cohomology and Alexander cohomology groups. Along with Morwen Thistlethwaite, he developed Dowker notation, a simple way of describing knots...
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  • Governor's Chair and Director of UT/ORNL Center for Molecular Biophysics Morwen Thistlethwaite, knot theorist Peter Tsai, chemist, inventor of the N95 mask E.O...
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    A tricky unknot diagram by Morwen Thistlethwaite...
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  • non-split if and only if the diagram is connected. Menasco, along with Morwen Thistlethwaite proved the Tait flyping conjecture, which states that, given any...
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  • diagnostic analysis for General Linear Models, extension to tangles of Morwen Thistlethwaite's result on the alternation of the Jones polynomial for alternating...
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    of open ends, they were subsequently generalized to more pairs. Thistlethwaite, Morwen B. (1991). "On the algebraic part of an alternating link". Pacific...
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    Braid Groups, Springer, ISBN 978-0-387-33841-5 Menasco, William; Thistlethwaite, Morwen, eds. (2005), Handbook of Knot Theory, Elsevier, ISBN 978-0-444-51452-3...
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  • proven to be non-invertible by Trotter. Chiral knot Hoste, Jim; Thistlethwaite, Morwen; Weeks, Jeff (1998), "The first 1,701,936 knots" (PDF), The Mathematical...
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  • and classification of knots and links". In William W. Menasco; Morwen B. Thistlethwaite (eds.). Handbook of Knot Theory (PDF). Amsterdam: Elsevier. pp...
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  • Mathematical Theory of Knots, (2001), ISBN 0-7167-4219-5 Menasco, William; Thistlethwaite, Morwen, eds. (2005). Handbook of Knot Theory. Elsevier. ISBN 0080459544...
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