Graduate Student Solves Decades-Old Conway Knot Problem | Quanta Magazine

Graduate Student Solves Decades-Old Conway Knot Problem | Quanta Magazine

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“I didn’t allow myself to work on it during the day, because I didn’t consider it to be real math.”

It took PhD student Lisa Piccirillo less than a week to solve a decades-old mathematical problem about the Conway knot — a knot that was discovered by legendary mathematician John Conway more than 50 years ago. (Quanta | 8 min read)