The 85 Ways to Tie a Tie
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-Continuing Education |
| Discipline(s): |
All Science and Engineering Mathematical Sciences |
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Reference - Article/Document |
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Unknown |
| Author(s): |
Thomas Fink |
| Description: | "The The 85 Ways to Tie a Tie refers to both the number of knots that can be tied in a conventional necktie, and a popular book on the history and science of ties and tie knots." The book grew out of two journal articles by Thomas Fink and Yong Mao, in which they introduced a mathematical respresentation of tie knots and proved that, with a conventional necktie, there are exactly 85 possible ways to tie it. Of these, just over a dozen are sufficiently handsome or different from each other to be worn. These include the four traditional knots - the four-in-hand, the Nicky (a derivative of the Pratt knot), the half-Windsor and the Windsor - and a number of previously unknown knots. |
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| Publication Date: | November 2007 |
| Platform/Format: |
WWW |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~tmf20/85ways.shtml |
| Metadata: |
IEEE LOM Record |
| Collection: |
NEEDS
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