It was written by Erica Flapan, based on a series of lectures she gave in 1996 at the Institut Henri Poincaré,[1] and was published in 2000 by the Cambridge University Press and Mathematical Association of America as the first volume in their shared Outlooks book series.
[4] When Topology Meets Chemistry concerns the mathematical analysis of molecular chirality.
[2] Other topics covered through the book include the rigid geometric chirality of tree-like molecular structures such as tartaric acid, and the stronger topological chirality of molecules that cannot be deformed into their mirror image without breaking and re-forming some of their molecular bonds.
And it includes material on the use of knot invariants to detect topological chirality.
[3][5] It includes many exercises,[2] making it suitable for use as a textbook at both the advanced undergraduate and introductory graduate levels.