{"id":774,"date":"2020-05-22T14:58:38","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T14:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.atlant.is\/?p=774"},"modified":"2021-02-21T12:21:56","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T10:21:56","slug":"11n34-not-slice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.douzeb.is\/?p=774","title":{"rendered":"11n34 &#8211; not slice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.atlant.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/lisa-piccirillo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-776\"\/><figcaption>Inspiring young mathematician Lisa Piccirillo<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lisa_Piccirillo\">Lisa Piccirillo<\/a> from University of Texas, Austin, recently published a <a href=\"https:\/\/annals.math.princeton.edu\/2020\/191-2\/p05\">paper in the annals of mathematics<\/a> solving a long-unsolved topology problem : the Conway knot (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Conway_knot\">11n34 in the Rolfsen tables<\/a>) is not slice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/\">Quantamagazine<\/a> has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/graduate-student-solves-decades-old-conway-knot-problem-20200519\/\">nice article about it<\/a>, and the paper itself is <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1808.02923\">available on arxiv<\/a>. Sadly the subject is too involved and I don&rsquo;t have the background to understand the paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the publication, Lisa Piccirillo was offered a tenure-track position at MIT, set to begin fourteen months after the completion of her doctorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"is-layout-flow wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<div class=\"is-layout-flow wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<figure class=\"is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-1 wp-block-gallery alignfull columns-2 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1970\" height=\"1960\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.atlant.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/piccirillo-4a.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"777\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/blog.atlant.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/piccirillo-4a.png\" data-link=\"http:\/\/blog.atlant.is\/?attachment_id=777\" class=\"wp-image-777\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2188\" height=\"2239\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.atlant.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/piccirillo-4h.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"778\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/blog.atlant.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/piccirillo-4h.png\" data-link=\"http:\/\/blog.atlant.is\/?attachment_id=778\" class=\"wp-image-778\"\/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Also from the inspiring doctorand: a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/mIwf4-ayBLA?t=52\">nice video<\/a> where she gives her take on <em>the nature of abstract Math<\/em>. Lisa&rsquo;s tentative definition: <em>Math is asking and answering of rigorously defined interesting questions<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa Piccirillo from University of Texas, Austin, recently published a paper in the annals of mathematics solving a long-unsolved topology problem : the Conway knot (11n34 in the Rolfsen tables) is not slice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,19],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[76],"authors":[{"term_id":76,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"fred","display_name":"Fred","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ec0326d654fdf9f66e9eb42bb34a9bc4?s=96&d=mm&r=g","description":"","first_name":"","last_name":"","user_url":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.douzeb.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.douzeb.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.douzeb.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.douzeb.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.douzeb.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.douzeb.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3461,"href":"https:\/\/blog.douzeb.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/3461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.douzeb.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.douzeb.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.douzeb.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.douzeb.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=774"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.douzeb.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}