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Lisa Piccirillo: How I cracked a 50-year-old maths problem in a week

Lisa Piccirillo: How I cracked a 50-year-old maths problem in a week

5 August 2020

Solving the Conway knot problem took mathematician Lisa Piccirillo on a journey into the fourth dimension. Here's how she did it

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