Lisa Piccirillo

Lisa Marie Piccirillo (born 1990 or 1991) is an American mathematician specializing in low-dimensional topology. She is a Professor and holds the Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair in Mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin.

Quotes

• I didn’t allow myself to work on it during the day,” she said, “because I didn’t consider it to be real math. I thought it was, like, my homework.
  • https://www.quantamagazine.org/graduate-student-solves-decades-old-conway-knot-problem-20200519/
• It’s really [three- and four-dimensional shapes] that are exciting for me, but the study of these things is deeply linked with knot theory.
  • https://www.quantamagazine.org/graduate-student-solves-decades-old-conway-knot-problem-20200519/