The Borromean rings
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: The Borromean rings
zbMATH Open document ID: 0918.01017
DOI: 10.1007/BF03024401
author: Elisabetta Beltrami
author: Marta Rampichini
author: Peter R. Cromwell
published in: The Mathematical Intelligencer
publication date: 1999-03-08T00:00:00Z
review text: Borromean rings are well known to topologists, in particular to those interested in knot theory. They are three rings linked together, but if we remove any one of them the other two fall apart. They are named Borromean because are present in the emblem of an Italian family of the Renaissance: The Borromei. The authors of this paper illustrate some mathematical properties of these rings and lead us in an interesting tour through the places where we can see some Borromeo's emblems where the rings are represented. In particular Isola Bella in Lake Maggiore in northern Italy and Milan.
reviewed by: Raffaella Franci
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A60
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57M25
zbMATH DE Number: 1233995
zbMATH Keywords: Borromean rings
zbMATH Keywords: knots
zbMATH Keywords: links
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03024401
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description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1233995