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🎶🤹‍♂️ When math professors get tired of equations, they play with ribbons instead! Dave Richeson takes us on a thrilling 😴 journey of maypole dances and mathematical tangles, because nothing screams 'party' like a deep dive into braid groups! 🎉 #MathIsFun?
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The maypole braid group

Over the weekend I attended a May Day party thrown by one of my colleagues. During the party they had a traditional maypole dance. An example of a maypole dance is shown at left. A maypole is a tal…

David Richeson: Division by Zero