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Mathematical Patterns in African American Hairstyles
This article discusses the "geometrical designs and patterns commonly used in hair braiding and weaving in African-American communities." It focuses mainly on the tessellations ("a filling up of a two-dimensional space by congruent copies of a figure that do not overlap") in hair braiding styles. Includes images and related reading. From a mathematics professor.
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/special/gilmer-gloria_HAIRSTYLES.html
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