From Encyclopedia of Mathematics - Reading time: 1 min
A non-trivial two-dimensional knot in the -dimensional Euclidean space ; a sphere which cannot be obtained by rotation in of a knotted arc situated in the half-space around the plane bounding the half-space. The fundamental group of a knotted sphere is not a knot group (cf. Knot and link groups).
References[edit]
[1] | R.H. Crowell, R.H. Fox, "Introduction to knot theory" , Ginn (1963) |