Published On Oct 17, 2020
In February 2020, mathematician Lisa Piccirillo ended a 50 year-old suspens by finding a property for a fascinating knot discovered by John Conway 50 years ago.
Lisa Piccirillo's article on ArXiv (pdf): https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.02923
Some articles on her discovery:
Quanta magazine: https://www.quantamagazine.org/gradua...
And: https://www.quantamagazine.org/math-i...
Science & avenir : https://www.sciencesetavenir.fr/fonda... knot-theory-puzzles_144824
BBC Africa: https://www.bbc.com/afrique/region-53...
Two El Jj videos on John Conway and his works: • John Conway - Deux (deux ?) minutes p...
and (on the audioactive suite): • Deux (deux ?) minutes pour la suite d...
The video playlist of the Numberphile channel with Conway:
• John Conway on Numberphile
Image des Mathematics article on Vaughan Jones, by Aurélien Alvarez:
https://images.math.cnrs.fr/Des-tress...
Two Science Podcast shows on math knots and their usefulness outside of math:
https://www.podcastscience.fm/emissio...
https://www.podcastscience.fm/emissio...
On the 4th dimension, the film Dimension by Jos Leys, Étienne Ghys and Aurélien Alvarez:
http://www.dimensions-math.org/Dim_fr...
For further :
The Knot Wiki, Knot Atlas: http://katlas.org/
A series of filmed courses on knot theory, by Anthony Bosman, for those who want to go further into technical details: • Knot Theory 1: Coloring
Illustrations: Chloé Bouchaour
Instagram: / chloescope_