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tnecniv
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Graduate Student Solves Decades-Old Conway Knot Pr...
This is pretty common. I had a professor who worked in an applied math domain and said his whole career was based on finding the right change of coordinates.
redis_mlc
on May 20, 2020
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Your prof might have just been parroting Grothendieck, who was famous for that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Grothendieck
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