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This chapter is the first on Vassiliev invariants, the second main topic of this book. It introduces the notion of a Vassiliev invariant. It describes this class of invariant from various perspectives and provides examples of them.
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Jackson, D.M., Moffatt, I. (2019). The Fundamentals of Vassiliev Invariants. In: An Introduction to Quantum and Vassiliev Knot Invariants. CMS Books in Mathematics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05213-3_10
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