Brunnian link

noun

Etymology

Named after Hermann Brunn, whose 1892 article Über Verkettung included examples of such links.

Definitions

  1. A nontrivial link that becomes a set of trivial unlinked circles if any one component is…

    A nontrivial link that becomes a set of trivial unlinked circles if any one component is removed. In other words, cutting any loop frees all the other loops.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Brunnian link. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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