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Knot's Landed: Conway's Knot Problem Solved

May 20, 2020 by Marc Handelman in Mathematics, Must Read

via Quanta Magazine's Erica Klarreich, comes the story of Lisa Piccirillo's solution to Conway's Knot Problem. Behold, Ms. Piccirillo's proof. Today's MustRead.

'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, Austin.' - via Erica Klarreich - writing at Quanta Magazine comes a story of brilliant grad student mathematician: Lisa Piccirillo

May 20, 2020 /Marc Handelman
Mathematics, Must Read
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