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Gordon, C.M. (1978). Some aspects of classical knot theory. In: Hausmann, JC. (eds) Knot Theory. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 685. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0062968

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