September 2, 20252 min readMathematicians have unraveled a key conjecture about knot theoryIn a recent preprint paper, mathematicians connected two knots in a way that could be undone in a surprisingly small number of moves. Amanda MontañezScanning the crowd at a fancy soiree may reveal a wide array of neckties, each fastened with a highly complex mathematical object masquerading as fashion. An entire field of mathematics is devoted to understanding mathematical knots, which one can obtain from ...