Download or read book Braid Foliations in Low-Dimensional Topology written by Douglas J. LaFountain and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a self-contained introduction to braid foliation techniques, which is a theory developed to study knots, links and surfaces in general 3-manifolds and more specifically in contact 3-manifolds. With style and content accessible to beginning students interested in geometric topology, each chapter centres around a key theorem or theorems.