TL;DR: Conway’s Knot[0] is not a “slice knot” (a kind of mathematical knot) Here’s a better news article: https://www.quantamagazine.org/graduate-student-solve

TL;DR: Conway’s Knot[0] is not a “slice knot” (a kind of mathematical knot) Here’s a better news article: https://www.quantamagazine.org/graduate-student-solves-decades-old-conway-knot-problem-20200519/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/graduate-student-solves-decad... [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway_knot https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway_knot