{"id":2138,"date":"2026-07-24T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/how-a-99-year-old-mathematician-unraveled-a-century-old-braid-mystery\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T11:15:00","slug":"how-a-99-year-old-mathematician-unraveled-a-century-old-braid-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/how-a-99-year-old-mathematician-unraveled-a-century-old-braid-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"How a 99-year-old mathematician unraveled a century-old braid mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joan Birman popularized the Burau representation problem decades ago. Now she and two colleagues have a proof that reveals brand new insights into the geometry of braids<\/p>\n<p class=\"bkbc-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Scientific American<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joan Birman popularized the Burau representation problem decades ago. Now she and two colleagues have a proof that reveals brand new insights into the geometry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}