print email comment close Mathematical Patterns in African American Hairstyles URL: http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/special/gilmer-gloria_HAIRSTYLES.html Description: 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. Author: Gilmer, Gloria Extra Keywords ethnomathematics Mathematicians of the African Diaspora Library of Congress Subject Headings: Ethnomathematics Hairdressing of African Americans Hairstyles Tessellations (Mathematics) LII Database Information: Record 16711 created by Jennifer English on 05/30/2005 Last modification on 06/01/2005 Published: 05/30/2005   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/16711