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Graduate Student Solves Decades-Old Conway Knot Problem
Nov 19, 2020
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
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2
The Conway Knot and Sliceness
02:01 • 2min
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3
The Conway Knot's Slice
03:50 • 3min
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4
Slice Knots in 4D Topology
06:39 • 2min
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5
The Conway Knot
08:18 • 3min
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6
The Problem With Knot Theory
10:59 • 4min
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7
The Importance of Studying Knot Traces
14:32 • 2min
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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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Graduate Student Solves Decades-Old Conway Knot Problem
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