The Conway Knot, a 50 Year Old Problem

Lisa picarillo is now an assistant professor of mathematics at m i t, where she specializes in the study of three and four dimensional spaces. She solved a 50 year old problem about something called the conway knot on her own time as a graduate student. "I just thought, come on, lankand what do you mean we don't know that that 11 crossing now is is not slace? And i guess i thought, well, it must not be that hard"