and he never did." Next came two transplanted Europeans, Wolfgang Haken and Valentin Poenaru, both of whom had taken up residence at the Institute. Haken was the product of an Old World German education. He had begun his doctoral thesis on a problem related to the conjecture, before veering off into

ot to bias his creativity. His colleagues, however, thought that in ignoring the history he had come up with nothing more than a revised edition of Haken's approach, with a couple of added attractions that gave it, in Rourke's words, "extra strength." The Kirby calculus, for example, provided Rourke

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