2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/153605This is a survey article describing the various ways in which the Kauffman bracket skein module is a quantization of surface group characters. These include a purely heuristic sense of deformation of a presentation, a Poisson quantization, and a lattice gauge field theory quantization.LaTeX2e v1.2, requires epsfig package, 16 pages, 22 figures inserted repeatedlyQuantum Algebra57M99text