Dan Piponi on Nostr: Also, while on the confectionery theme, when I was an undergrad our algebraic ...

Also, while on the confectionery theme, when I was an undergrad our algebraic topology lecturer was Lickorish (who was one of those rare lecturers students look forward to) who gave his name to the Lickorish twist, a theorem about Dehn twists, and I wonder if what the the taffy machine is doing can be viewed as (some kind of slice through?) a Dehn twist.