In mathematics, even the simplest things can have an astounding depth. Let’s for instance take the trefoil knot, the simplest knot there is:
One can replace the tube by a ribbon, like so:
This could be done with a simple ruled surface, but I like a challenge. To make this a minimal surface, one can use Björling’s formula. The game becomes tricky if one wants the surface to be of finite total curvature, but this can be done as well. Then it is not difficult to let the normal of the surface rotate once to get a knotted minimal Möbius strip.
Faster spinning normals create knotted helicoids.
Extending the surface beyond a small neighborhood of the trefoil knot makes things appear really complicated.
Of course the same can be done with more complicated knots.
The Inner Frame 