A Grad Student Solved the Epic Conway Knot Problem—in a Week
https://www.wired.com/story/a-grad-student-solved-the-epic-conway-knot-problem-in-a-week/
In the summer of 2018, at a conference on low-dimensional topology and geometry, Lisa Piccirillo heard about a nice little math problem. It seemed like a good testing ground for some techniques she had been developing as a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin.
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