Streaming "Illustrated Audio" Projects

Recorded and edited by Tony Phillips

These items require RealPlayer, available for Windows, Mac and UNIX from RealNetworks. The RealPlayer 8 Basic is free.

Four Shoe Knots (requires 60K connection)

Knotted Texts (requires 28K connection)

Knots to a Mathematician: Very short lectures on knots by various topologists.

1. Braids and Knots (3 min. 6 sec.)
Joan Birman, Columbia University.
Recorded in New York City, September 1990.

2. Symmetries in Knots (5 min. 34 sec.)
Raymond Lickorish, Cambridge University.
Recorded in Los Angeles, June 1990

3. Knots Don't Cancel (3 min. 15 sec.)
John Conway, Princeton University.
Recorded in Princeton, March 1990

4. Ribbon Knots (2 min. 14 sec.)
Robion Kirby, University of California, Berkeley
Recorded in Berkeley, May 1990

5. Knots to Narnia (6 min. 40 sec.)
William Thurston, University of California, Berkeley
(Now at Cornell University)
Recorded in Berkeley, March 1992
Denser version for high-speed connections

6. Knots to Narnia - in class (3 min.)
William Thurston, University of California, Berkeley
(Now at Cornell University)
Recorded in Berkeley, March 1992

7. Knots and the Poincaré Conjecture
(1 min. 20 sec.)

Andrew Casson, University of California, Berkeley
(Now at Yale University)
Recorded in Berkeley, May 1990

8. The Birth of the Jones Polynomial
(3 min. 52 sec.)

Joan Birman, Columbia University
Recorded in New York City, September 1990
   Note: in these images, the left and right-hand trefoils are reversed.

9. The Knot on my Shirt
(1 min. 54 sec.)

Vaughan Jones, University of California, Berkeley
Recorded in Berkeley, March 1992

10. Knots and Statistical Mechanics
(4 min. 25 sec.)

Vaughan Jones, University of California, Berkeley
Recorded in Berkeley, March 1992

11. Knots in DNA Analysis (2 min. 38 sec.)
Nicholas Cozzarelli, Department of Molecular Biology,
University of California, Berkeley
Nick died on March 19, 2006. Obituary from the San Francisco Chronicle.
Recorded in Berkeley, May 1990
Pam Davis assisted with the recording.

12. Topology of Kinetoplast DNA
(2 min. 40 sec.)

Sylvia Spengler,
Program in Mathematics and Molecular Biology,
University of California, Berkeley
Recorded in Berkeley, May 1990

Comments? Write to tony at math.sunysb.edu