The picture below may not look that complicated to people unfamiliar with knot theory, but it's been confounding mathematicians for decades. Now, a graduate student-turned-MIT professor holds the ...

Half a century ago, a brilliant young mathematician named John Horton Conway discovered, of all things, a knot. This wasn’t the sort of knot that you’d be likely to encounter in the real world. You ...

“I didn’t allow myself to work on it during the day,” she said, “because I didn’t consider it to be real math. I thought it was, like, my homework.” The question asked whether the Conway knot—a snarl ...

During her graduate studies at The University of Texas at Austin, Lisa Piccirillo solved a problem that had bedeviled mathematicians for five decades. Piccirillo first learned of the Conway Knot ...

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 school bus is on its way, and your kid comes to you with a knot in his shoelace. It’s a doozy. Fat and chaotic. Gordian maybe, demanding a solution with the edge of a swift, sharp blade. Draw your ...

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A useful piece of advice that I have imparted to friends and relatives is that if you want to stop a piece of string or a cord from randomly tangling itself into a knot, then fasten the two loose ends ...