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In his youth, C.F. Gauss proved the law of quadratic reciprocity and further created the theory of genera for binary quadratic forms.
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Another origin of knot theory goes back to the work of William Thomson (Lord Kelvin; 1824–1907) on atomic theory. He considered atoms as knotted vortex tubes of ether and tried to classify atoms in the correspondence with knots. Although his theory on atoms was discarded in physics, the subsequent work by his collaborator, P. Tait, on the classification of knots led their theory (unexpectedly) to the development of knot theory in mathematics.
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Morishita, M. (2024). Introduction. In: Knots and Primes. Universitext. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-9255-3_1
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