quandle

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A rack, scriptstyle Q,, such that scriptstyle ∀a;∈;Q a triangleright a=a or equivalently a triangleleft a=a.

Word forms

quandle quandles

Etymology

Coined by David Joyce in his 1982 paper A classifying invariant of knots: the knot quandle.

Derived words

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