@article{198e079a62b74b719e6bd0f2d0c0615c,
title = "A minus sign that used to annoy me but now I know why it is there",
author = "Peter Tingley",
note = "We consider two well known constructions of link invariants. One uses skein theory: you resolve each crossing of the link as a linear combination of things that don't cross, until you eventually get a linear combination of links with no crossings, which you turn into a polynomial.",
year = "2017",
month = jan,
day = "1",
language = "American English",
journal = "Proceedings of the 2014 Maui and 2015 Qinhuangdao Conferences in Honour of Vaughan F.R. Jones{\textquoteright} 60th Birthday",
}