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This summarizes my entire experience with higher mathematics (and in fact academia in general).

To be fair, this is mostly because in order to have an in-depth conversation about a topic you first need to make sure everybody involved shares the same definitions. And in this case it's also because naming things is hard and "regular" knots are not very interesting in mathematics.




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