A quantum algorithm for solving mathematical problems related to knots could give us the first example of a quantum computer ...

6, 118–121; 2010). Mark Dennis and co-workers use mathematical knot theory to construct complex functions in an abstract 3D space on a periodic braid. The knot function is then embedded in a ...

“In pure mathematics, ‘knots’ are purely mathematical entities, but they are powerful concepts for studying real things,” explains pure-mathematician Yuka Kotorii, deputy director of ...

This wasn’t the sort of knot that you’d be likely to encounter in the real world. You could certainly create it out of string if you wanted to, but generally speaking, it existed only in Conway’s ...