Mathematicians have solved a decades-old problem in knot theory, discovering that linking two knots together can actually produce a knot that is easier to untie – the opposite of what was expected ...

From our DNA strands to fishing rods to art, knots are all around us. Ana Wright, a Davidson College assistant mathematics ...

The Meereenese Knot that troubled George R.R. Martin in the past is reportedly coming back to haunt him while he's writing ...

Far from being an abstract mathematical curiosity, knot theory has driven many findings in math and beyond.

Then, two years ago, a little-known graduate student, and BC alum, named Lisa Piccirillo learned about the knot problem while attending a math conference. A speaker mentioned the Conway knot during a ...

In knot theory, quantities that describe the properties of knots are called “invariants”. The dream of knot theorists is to find a quantity like the proton number that can classify any knot based on ...

Knot theory seeks to encode information about knots -- including what happens when they are altered in some way -- into algebraic expressions that can distinguish one knot from another.

From the Globe Magazine archive A math problem stumped experts for 50 years. A grad student from Maine solved it in days. “That’s ridiculous,” Lisa Piccirillo thought when she first learned ...

Any knot you can make by slicing a knotted sphere is said to be “slice.” Some knots are not slice — for instance, the three-crossing knot known as the trefoil. Slice knots “provide a bridge between ...