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In 1883, the British physicist Joseph John Thomson wrote his master’s thesis, A Treatise on the Motion of Vortex Rings, exploring the fluid dynamics that govern the motion of phenomena like smoke rings and circular underwater vortices. It was brilliant. The essay laid the mathematical foundation for knot theory (the study of closed loops in three-dimensional space), showed that single rings could be stable, and gave an explanation for chemical bonding. 
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