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https://www.washingtonpost.com/scie...38bebe-9ace-11ea-ac72-3841fcc9b35f_story.html
For over 50 years, mathematicians have argued over the nature of a complex knot. The tangled problem, known as Conway’s knot, is so fabled among mathematicians that a depiction of the knot even graces the gates of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences at Cambridge University.
The knot problem was named for John Conway, a mathematician who died April 11 of covid-19 at age 82.
Now it’s been solved by a graduate student who tackled it in her spare time — and figured it out in less than a week.
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Good for her.
In HS, the girls were always better at math than the boys.
For over 50 years, mathematicians have argued over the nature of a complex knot. The tangled problem, known as Conway’s knot, is so fabled among mathematicians that a depiction of the knot even graces the gates of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences at Cambridge University.
The knot problem was named for John Conway, a mathematician who died April 11 of covid-19 at age 82.
Now it’s been solved by a graduate student who tackled it in her spare time — and figured it out in less than a week.
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Good for her.
In HS, the girls were always better at math than the boys.
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