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Summary

Description

4-loop Brunnian link — no two loops are directly linked, but all four are collectively linked, and cutting any loop frees all the other loops.

Date

2006

Source

Redrawn version of illustration in Hermann Brunn's 1892 article "Über Verkettung", by way of Dale Rolfsen's 1976 book Knots and Links (p. 67).

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	16:33, 3 May 2006	588 × 600 (12 KB)	AnonMoos	minor color tweaking
	13:09, 29 April 2006	588 × 600 (12 KB)	AnonMoos	tweaking...
	23:47, 31 March 2006	588 × 600 (12 KB)	AnonMoos	better version (more magnified)
	15:01, 31 March 2006	580 × 600 (12 KB)	AnonMoos	larger clearer version (color-coded)
	17:45, 18 March 2006	318 × 268 (6 KB)	Maksim	La bildo estas kopiita de wikipedia:en. La originala priskribo estas: == Summary == Made using Microsoft Paint for Windows XP. == Licensing == {{PD-user\|msh210}} {\| border="1" ! date/time \|\| username \|\| edit summary \|---- \| 07:35, 18 November 2005 \|\| [[