Download or read book Braids and Coverings written by Vagn Lundsgaard Hansen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-12-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays develop the elementary theory of Artin Braid groups geometrically and via homotopy theory, discuss the link between knot theory and the combinatorics of braid groups through Markou's Theorem and investigate polynomial covering maps.