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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.
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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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current13:30, 11 April 2013Thumbnail for version as of 13:30, 11 April 2013588 × 600 (2 KB)AnonMoossimplify, slightly adjust margins
19:53, 5 September 2006Thumbnail for version as of 19:53, 5 September 2006588 × 600 (3 KB)AnonMoosfixing typo in file comment -- vector data remains unchanged
03:06, 5 September 2006Thumbnail for version as of 03:06, 5 September 2006588 × 600 (3 KB)AnonMoos4-loop Brunnian link — no two loops are directly linked, but all four are collectively linked, and cutting any loop frees all the other loops. SVG version of Image:Brunnian.png . Converted from the following PostScript code: <pre>%! .1 dup scale

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