How to pronounce“reidemeister”in English

If you check all sequences of Reidemeister moves up to that number, you can prove if the knot is the unknot or not.

So Tait and Little likely tried Reidemeister moves to see if they could transform one into the other.

If you can show that they're connected by Reidemeister moves,

With invariants to prove if knots are different and Reidemeister moves to prove if knots are the same, you can attack from two angles to meet the gargantuan task

But in 1927, German mathematician Kurt Reidemeister proved a radical theorem.

The Alexander polynomial was the first one discovered back in 1923 before even Reidemeister moves.

But we still don't know how to prove any knots different from each other because you could do Reidemeister moves on one knot for centuries