The relations between topology and group theory have always been cordial at the very least, and this book is meant to take advantage of that fact. This work is intended to give some indication of the present state of knowledge concerning the fundamental group of the complement of an arbitrary polygonal knot in the three sphere. The relation of such a group to "group theory" on the one hand, and to the problems of three-dimensional manifolds on the other is an interesting one.
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