UofM: quantum groups and Jones polynomial

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Selected Wikipedia biographies:

Weyl

Teller (very interesting read, but much more physics than math).

Schur

Jones

Drinfeld

Here is link to Weyl's book on Classical Groups

To learn more about classical groups and their representations start by looking at the book by Fulton and Harris "Representation Theory: A First Course".

Wikipedia on Reidemeister moves

Kuperberg's paper which generalizes R.T.W.'s diagrammatic description of $SL_2$ to $SL_3$, $Sp_4$ and $G_2$.