A century-old knot conjecture was wrong all along

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Check out the paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.24088

Thanks so much to Mark Brittenham and Susan Hermiller at University of Nebraska at Lincoln for talking me through it.

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CORRECTIONS
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MATT PARKER: Stand-up Mathematician
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