When faced with an unsolvable problem, you are said to face a “Gordian knot,” a rope that is tied so intricately or tangled so completely that it is impossible to untie. If you dive a little deeper ...

Conway’s knot, a famous mathematical problem, was a tricky one to untangle. Mathematicians have been arguing about how to solve it for more than 50 years—until 2018, when graduate student Lisa ...

Fear not, fellow mathophobes: A new superheroine has arrived to rescue us all from innumeracy. Knot Man -- she’s “knot” a man -- and her canine companion, Knot Cat, are the stars of a comic book that ...

For over 50 years, mathematicians have argued over the nature of a complex knot. The tangled problem, known as Conway’s knot, is so fabled among mathematicians that a depiction of the knot even graces ...

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 ...