Knot Theory News Today

A 54-atom golden knot is tighter than the knots in DNA and comes close to the theoretical limit of knot size.

The animals’ wriggles could have implications for bioengineering and robotics.

OSWEGO - Indu Rasika Churchill of the SUNY Oswego mathematics faculty recently earned the Provost’s Award for Scholarly and Creative Activity, which recognizes a junior faculty member, in this case

Their report, published on Thursday in the scientific journal Nature, was co-authored by Australias University of Sydney Mathematical Research Institute director Prof. Geordie Williamson.

Humans and AI working together can reveal new areas of mathematics where data sets are too large to be comprehended by mathematicians

Alex Walker/Getty Images Unravelling knots just got easier. One of the biggest problems in the mathematical study of knots is recognising the difference between an actual knot and a piece of string that can be untangled into a single loop. A new algorithm can find this “unknot” far faster than any previous one can, which could come in handy for studying the tangles of DNA or the fluid dynamics of stars. Mathematically, the definition of a knot is a closed curve – like a piece of string wi...

Some tangles that look like knots are actually “the unknot”, which can be untangled into a simple loop, and a new algorithm has sped up the process of finding them