john horton conway's knot solved in a week

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Last year UT Grad Student Lisa Piccirillo solved the Conway Knot
( A knot with 11 crossings-math-problem that had Stumped Experts for 50 Years )

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software used in the video is Knotplot 

Intrigued? 
​Learn more about 3D rotation and rotational matrices here..

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Knots to a Mathematician:

Very short lectures on knots by various topologists..

Celebrating women inventors :: 

​Lisa Piccirillo dusted off some long-known but little-utilized mathematical tools to answer a decades-old question about knots.

Mathematician Lisa Piccirillo discusses her career in mathematics, including the 50-year old Conway knot problem and how she solved it.

She also discusses her mission and priority to get more people from underrepresented groups in tech to succeed in mathematics.​

1 of 4 : what is a (mathematical) knot?

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2 of 4: john conway knots

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3 of 4: Lisa Piccirillo answers half a century old question in a week 

4 of 4: how you too can solve!

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