{"id":107496,"date":"2020-05-23T03:03:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T10:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/young-mathematician-solves-old-famous-knot-problem-in-barely-a-week"},"modified":"2020-05-23T03:03:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T10:03:08","slug":"young-mathematician-solves-old-famous-knot-problem-in-barely-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/young-mathematician-solves-old-famous-knot-problem-in-barely-a-week","title":{"rendered":"Young Mathematician Solves Old, Famous Knot Problem in Barely a Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lwWeRMmXIoU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mathematicians were shocked when a graduate student worked through a decades-old problem in just a few days. University of Texas at Austin mathematician Lisa Piccirillo learned about the Conway knot\u2014a knot with 11 crossings, so named for the late mathematician John Horton Conway\u2014from a colleague\u2019s talk during a conference. Within a week, she\u2019d solved the longstanding problem of whether or not the special knot was slice. (It\u2019s not.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mathematicians were shocked when a graduate student worked through a decades-old problem in just a few days. University of Texas at Austin mathematician Lisa Piccirillo learned about the Conway knot\u2014a knot with 11 crossings, so named for the late mathematician John Horton Conway\u2014from a colleague\u2019s talk during a conference. Within a week, she\u2019d solved the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}