Braids introductory lectures on braids, configurations and their applications - Berrick, A. J. (A. Jon); ebrary, Inc.; National University of Singapore. Institute for Mathematical Sciences (Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, 2010)
Tutorial on the braid groups / Dale Rolfsen -- Simplicial objects and homotopy groups / Jie Wu -- Introduction to configuration spaces and their applications / Frederick R. Cohen -- Configuration spaces, braids, and robotics / Robert Ghrist -- Braids and magnetic fields / Mitchell A. Berger -- Braid group cryptography / David Garber.
Includes bibliographical references.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: Braid theory; Representations of groups; Algebraic topology; Electronic books