Contents:

• Notes on Subfactors and Statistical Mechanics (V F R Jones)
• Polynomial Invariants in Knot Theory (L H Kauffman)
• Algebras of Loops on Surfaces, Algebras of Knots, and Quantization (V G Turaev)
• Quantum Groups (L Faddeev et al.)
• Introduction to the Yang-Baxter Equation (M Jimbo)
• Integrable Systems Related to Braid Groups and Yang-Baxter Equation (T Kohno)
• The Yang-Baxter Relation: A New Tool for Knot Theory (Y Akutsu et al.)
• Akutsu-Wadati Link Polynomials from Feynman-Kauffman Diagrams (M-L Ge et al.)
• Quantum Field Theory and the Jones Polynomial (E Witten)

"The first volume might be especially useful for specialists in its subject, but it also contains good expositions for nonspecialists."