“And in four dimensions, that gets harder. Like, that ability to just literally observe the space goes away. But you can still draw these representative pictures where you lose some but not all information.”
– Mathematician
Lisa Piccirillo, on the difficulty of representing knots in
four dimensional space. In conversation with host Steven Strogatz and fellow mathematician
Colin Adams, the trio untangles varied applications of knot theory in fields including synthetic biology and genetics.
