Talk:Finite type invariant

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Other than the first part, this article is very poorly written!

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Some comments:

(1) The first one to write down the Vassiliev invariants of order 2 and 3 in terms of chord diagrams was Lannes:

Lannes, Jean Sur les invariants de Vassiliev de degré inférieur ou égal à $3$. Enseign. Math. (2) 39 (1993), no. 3-4, 295--316.

(2) Who is Turaeva? Could it be that it is in fact Svetlana Tyurina? E.g. http://arxiv.org/abs/math/9905162 ?

(3) Is there a reference for the fact that the work of Polyak and Viro is wrong? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.190.2.132 (talk) 18:14, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hear, hear. Henry Delforn (talk) 04:54, 29 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The "combinatorial definition of finite type invariant" attributed here to "Goussarov, and (independently) Joan Birman and Xiao-Song Lin" is explicitly given in the very first Vassiliev's paper (pp.26-27, available through Google Scholar -> va vassiliev) as a "geometric interpretation" of his construction. Then it was quoted in the referative part of Birman-Lin article and became the main definition since that, while Goussarov did not used singular knots, working with alternated sums of non-singular knot diagrams only. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.179.218.11 (talk) 07:21, 29 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]