
Untangling Why Knots Are Important
The Joy of Why
Is the Conway Knot Slice?
The approach was, it was kind of in two parts. There is this, and it started with this fact that everybody who studies traces knows: If you have a pair of no that have the same trace, then they're either both slice, or they're both knot slice. So i don't want to try to prove whether the conway knot is slice or not. What i'm going to do is build another knot that has the same trace as theConway knot. And i'm to study that other knot, and hopefully it won't be so weird and hard to deal with. That's what took a ane, until thursday or something. But then on th Thursday night
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