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Educational TalkEducational TalkExplore one of mathematics' enduring puzzles: a 60-year-old conjecture about the elegant patterns hidden in alternating knots. This talk reveals how modern geometers are cracking it using permutahedrons and Lorentzian polynomials.
Advanced mathematics
Academic lecture
Niche intellectual
Tips
📜conjecture dates to 1962, still unsolved in general
🔗alternating links are a special class of mathematical knots
On Fox’s trapezoidal conjecture (Combinatorics Seminar)
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Educational TalkEducational TalkExplore one of mathematics' enduring puzzles: a 60-year-old conjecture about the elegant patterns hidden in alternating knots. This talk reveals how modern geometers are cracking it using permutahedrons and Lorentzian polynomials.
Advanced mathematics
Academic lecture
Niche intellectual
Tips
📜conjecture dates to 1962, still unsolved in general
🔗alternating links are a special class of mathematical knots
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