A invenção da teoria das tranças: textos e contextos

Juliana Roberta Theodoro de Lima; Ediel Azevedo Guerra

doi:10.53727/rbhc.v18i1.1049

Authors

Juliana Roberta Theodoro de Lima Universidade Federal de Alagoas https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2429-167X
Ediel Azevedo Guerra Universidade Federal de Alagoas https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3090-7167

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53727/rbhc.v18i1.1049

Keywords:

Mathematics – History – Braid Theory – Knot Theory

Abstract

In this work we present a discussion about the rise of braid theory, historic wise. We start from the following investigative question: How the creation of braid theory has happened? This paper deals with a bibliographic search which was inspired by a History-problem proposal by March Bloch and Lucien Febvre, historians from Annales School. Here, we express the existent problems, concepts and some remarkable and famous theorems which have motivated the construction of braid theory, pointing out some involved characters, their timelines, institutional contexts about educational background and situation.

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