2023--2024 -- my MSc project on using braids to model Scottish country dancing figures. In a nutshell: imagine parking a Maypole at the centre of the dance set and clipping a Maypole ribbon to the waist of each dancer (in such a way that the ribbon grows longer as necessary...): what is the pattern created on the Maypole, and how can we use MATHS to analyse it?
Introduction
Building foundations
Final dissertation: