edited by C N Yang (State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA) & M L Ge (Nankai University, China)

The present volume is an updated version of the book edited by C N Yang and M L Ge on the topics of braid groups and knot theory, which are related to statistical mechanics. This book is based on the 1989 volume but has new material included and new contributors.

• On the Combinatorics of Vassiliev Invariants (J S Birman)
• Solvable Methods, Link Invariants and Their Applications to Physics (T Deguchi & M Wadati)
• Quantum Symmetry in Conformal Field Theory by Hamiltonian Methods (L D Faddeev)
• Yang-Baxterization & Algebraic Structures (M L Ge, K Xue, Y S Wu)
• Spin Networks, Topology and Discrete Physics (L H Kauffman)
• Tunnel Numbers of Knots and Jones-Witten Invariants (T Kohno)
• Knot Invariants and Statistical Mechanics: A Physicist's Perspective (F Y Wu)
• and other papers