For my undergraduate thesis my focus was in knot theory, a subset of topology and a newer subject in mathematics. These are not the knots we think of in our daily life. The knots I studied had no ends and no thickness. Knots as we know them in everyday life have been around since before the Greeks. The book of Kells is decorated with intricate knot work. Sailors have used them on their ships. The Incas even used them to keep track of their accounting.
The Incan civilization started in modern day
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