quandle
Meanings
noun
- A rack, scriptstyle Q,, such that scriptstyle ∀a;∈;Q a triangleright a=a or equivalently a triangleleft a=a.
Word forms
Etymology
Coined by David Joyce in his 1982 paper A classifying invariant of knots: the knot quandle.
Derived words
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