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wglb 104 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The Burau representation of the braid group is fai...

Also https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/99-old-mathemati.... Someone who has been at this problem for 60 years.

slwvx 104 days ago [–]

She has a wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Birman

axus 104 days ago | [–]

Nice! Her experience getting a "bionic ear" at age 80 was very interesting: https://www.math.columbia.edu/~jb/my-bionic-ear.pdf

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