Braid Group, Knot Theory And Statistical Mechanics - Chen Ning Yang

\The first volume might be especially useful for specialists in its subject, but it also contains good expositions for nonspecialists.\Acta Sci. Math. (Szeged)Contents: Notes on Subfactors and Statistical Mechanics (V F R Jones); Polynomial Invariants in Knot Theory (L H Kauffman); Algebras of Loops on Surfaces, Algebras of Knots, and Quantization (V G Turaev); Quantum Groups (L Faddeev et al.); Introduction to the Yang-Baxter Equation (M Jimbo); Integrable Systems Related to Braid Groups and Yang-Baxter..