Links of Curve and Surface Singularities

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We start with a brief account of knot theory for the following two reasons. First, the links of (plane) curve singularities—which are usually regarded as the simplest class of singularities to investigate—form a special class of knots, the so-called algebraic links. Second, many of the fundamental concepts related to the local topology of a higher dimensional IHS (e.g., Seifert matrix, intersection form, Milnor fibration, Alexander polynomial) have been considered first in relation to knot theory.