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| | RIMS Project 2001 |
 | | Apart from the inherent attractiveness of low-dimensional topology as a field of particular mathematical complexity, it is also an enticing study because of its `visibility', that is, one can actually view and feel low-dimensional objects such as 3-dimensional manifolds and knotted circles. |
 | | For most of the twentieth century, we have studied low dimensional topology using both the direct, geometrical `cut-and-paste' methods, and the more abstract techniques of Algebraic Topology. |
 | | As a result, techniques from low-dimensional topology are now used in other fields including not only number theory, representation theory and integrable systems, but also theoretical physics. |
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