A century-old knot conjecture was wrong all along @standupmaths
A century-old knot conjecture was wrong all along  @standupmaths
Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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Check out the paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2506.24088

Thanks so much to Mark Brittenham and Susan Hermiller at University of Nebraska at Lincoln for talking me through it.

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CORRECTIONS
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Filming and editing by Alex Genn-Bash
Written and performed by Matt Parker
Produced by Nicole Jacobus
Music by Howard Carter
Design by Simon Wright and Adam Robinson

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