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ICM which happens only every four years, concluded this week with three leading University of Texas at Austin mathematicians among the invited speakers.

OVER the course of one week in 2018, Lisa Piccirillo cracked a mathematical problem that had gone unsolved for half a century. Posed by legendary mathematician John Conway in 1970, it concerns a ...

“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 ...

The Conway Knot had been a mathematical puzzle for half a century, until Dr. Lisa Piccirillo came along and solved it in a week. She spoke with physics teacher Rhett Allain at WIRED25 about impossible ...