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If an advanced alien species someday finds this rover on Mars (or probably any other space probe launched by NASA) and examines it, what will this method of kno
by marshray 14y ago
If an advanced alien species someday finds this rover on Mars (or probably any other space probe launched by NASA) and examines it, what will this method of knotting tell them about the state of human mathematics?
For example, is it possible that there exists another, more optimal, type of knot that we should have chosen had only our knot theory had been more advanced?
- ars 14y agoI doubt it. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trefoil_knot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trefoil_knot
- nicklaforge 14y ago"Knot theory" always concerns strings that are joined at either end to form a closed circuit. Regardless, I don't think abstract mathematics does much for you when the problem is so simple and 'practical'.