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Welcome to the home of the new Knot Atlas! This site aims to be a complete user-editable knot atlas, in the wiki spirit of Wikipedia. This site supersedes Dror Bar-Natan's Knot Atlas. It is being developed primarily by Scott and Dror, but any one can edit almost anything, anytime.

The Rolfsen Table of knots with up to 10 crossings

The Hoste-Thistlethwaite Table of 11 Crossing Knots

The Thistlethwaite Link Table

36 Torus Knots

The Mathematica Package KnotTheory`

More Stuff

• Scott's MediaWiki Mathematica package provides a simple mediawiki interface, supporting accounts, in Mathematica.

todo list

• something is wrong with the clock? have a look at recent changes.
• search is broken

cosmetic

• remove redundant items from the menu on the left
• images galleries [1]
• collapsible sections??

fundamental decisions

• how to incorporate knot tables
• how to store data for invariants?
  • this probably isn't a good idea, but someone has written an extension for incorporating XML data. [2]

writing templates

• see [3] and [4]
• a start at the knot data template, and the Trefoil
• playing with conditional transclusion

mathematica

• write an `auto-splicer'?
• automatic image uploading? [5] [6]

notes

• katlas installation notes