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On Geometry and Topology

Postby Guest » Thu May 28, 2020 12:23 pm

Wow! "KNOT THEORY:
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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https://www.quantamagazine.org/graduate-student-solves-decades-old-conway-knot-problem-20200519/.
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Prof. Lisa Piccirillo’s solution to the Conway knot problem helped her land a tenure-track position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Re: On Geometry and Topology

Postby Guest » Thu May 28, 2020 2:16 pm

FYI: "Mathematician helps resolve question first asked 60 years ago on the geometrical properties of seven-dimensional objects which very closely resemble spheres."

https://phys.org/news/2020-05-mathematician-years.html.
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