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Graduate Student Solves Decades-Old Conway Knot Problem

It took Lisa Piccirillo less than a week to answer a long-standing question about a strange knot discovered over half a century ago by the legendary John Conway

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Hasnain says:

I can’t claim to understand even half of this stuff but it was quite an interesting read.

““I didn’t allow myself to work on it during the day,” she said, “because I didn’t consider it to be real math. I thought it was, like, my homework.””

Posted on 2020-05-21T07:12:34+0000