Braids: A Survey

Handbook of Knot Theory

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 19-103

  Birman, Joan S ^a   Brendle, Tara E ^b  

^a Barnard College of Columbia University   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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