[my mast aint so sturdy]
in mathematics, the kirby calculus in geometric topology is a method for modifying framed links in the 3-sphere using a finite set of moves, the kirby moves...

my head is at half.

robion kirby proved that if m and n are 3-manifolds, resulting from dehn surgery on framed links l and j respectively, then they are homeomorphic IF AND ONLY IF l and j are related by a sequence of kirby moves...

i'm searching the clouds for a storm.

according to the lickorish-wallace theorem any closed orientable 3-manifold is obtained by such surgery on some link in the 3-sphere.


fucking for fear of not wanting to fear again.


- posted by angela @ 3:11 PM