In knot theory, the Whitehead link, discovered by J.H.C. Whitehead, is one of the most basic links.
J.H.C. Whitehead spent much of the 1930s looking for a proof of the Poincaré conjecture. In 1934, the Whitehead link was used as part of his construction of the now-named Whitehead manifold, which refuted his previous purported proof of the conjecture.
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