9 Feb 2021

Untangling Knot Theory

From Nights, 7:15 pm on 9 February 2021
A right-handed trefoil knot

A right-handed trefoil knot Photo: David J. Fred, CC BY-SA 2.5 , via Wikimedia Commons

Dillon Mayhew, Associate Professor from the School of Mathematics and Statistics at Te Heranga Waka/Victoria University of Wellington joins us once again.  Tonight he'll be helping us untangle knot theory.

One of Ochiai's unknots. SVG redraw of original work.

Photo: en:User:C S (original); Pbroks13 (talk) (redraw), CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons