Lisa Piccirillo

Quotes

• “A is said to be slice if it bounds a in the . We demonstrate that the , 11n34 in the Rolfsen tables, is not slice. This completes the classification of slice knots under 13 , and gives the first example of a non-slice knot which is both topologically slice and a positive mutant of a slice knot.”
• “I didn’t allow myself to work on it during the day,” she said, “because I didn’t consider it to be real math. I thought it was, like, my homework.”
• “It’s really [three- and four-dimensional shapes] that are exciting for me, but the study of these things is deeply linked with knot theory.”

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