Paul Martin: Reference Section
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Essential Reading

I tend to assume you know the material in these works, so they (or some equivalents) are essential reading.

• R H Crowell and R H Fox, Introduction to Knot Theory, (Ginn, 1963).
  Here I don't care about KNOTS per se, but this is a handy place to learn about some basic topology and geometry...
  • category
  • fundamental groupoid
  • regular projection
  • ...
• M Hamermesh, Group Theory, (Dover).
  • symmetric group
  • (alternative to Hamermesh) H Boerner, Representations of groups, (North-Holland).
• J Kogut, An Introduction to Lattice Gauge Theory and Spin Systems (Rev Mod Phys, 1979).
• E Lieb and Mattis, Mathematical Physics in One Dimension, (AP).
• S Mac Lane, Categories for the working mathematician, (Springer).
• E E Moise, Geometric Topology, (Springer).

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