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"It’s really [three- and four-dimensional shapes] that are exciting for me, but the study of these things is deeply linked with knot theory."
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Lisa Marie Piccirillo is an American mathematician specializing in low-dimensional topology. She is a Professor and holds the Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair in Mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin. She is known for solving a long-standing problem in knot theory by proving that the Conway knot is not smoothly slice.
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"I didn’t allow myself to work on it during the day,” she said, “because I didn’t consider it to be real math. I thought it was, like, my homework."
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