Famous Curves Index*Cool Site* - Curves you've heard of and curves you haven't, from Astroid to the Witch of Agnesi.
The Aesthetics of Symmetry - A brief digression into how people perceive symmetrical patterns -- what makes them boring, interesting, or overly intricate
Amazing Spiro - An applet for making spirograph graphs. Includes options for size, color and shape. Allows saving of completed image.
Back to Square One - Includes description, solutions and other resources on this cube-like puzzle.
Critical Math - Articles and images on recreational math from fractals and magic squares to mathemorchids and Galois.
Cryptarithms Online - 70 brain-teasers; a Primer on Cryptarithmetic; books and links to alphametics on the Web.
CuriousMath - Include news, math tricks, methods, facts, trivia, mostly posted by users.
The Diamond 16 Puzzle - New version of the classic puzzle using row/column/quadrant permutations to display symmetries of graphic designs. Has link to a site on the underlying mathematics (Diamond Theory).
A Disproof of Pythagoras' Theorem? - A method of disproving the Theorem of Pythagoras is presented. The author is adamant that this is intended only as a puzzle to find the mistake in the arguments, and not as a serious proposal.
Eureka - The annual journal of the Archimedeans, the mathematical society of the University of Cambridge. It regularly contains articles on recreational mathematics.
Fair Dice - Includes a complete list of all possible Fair Dice, most of which are not cubes. Includes pictures.
Final Answers - Numerous facts including formulas, magic tricks, fallacies, recreations compiled by Dr. Gerald P. Michon.
Fun With Mathematics - Includes pages on the topics of primes, fibonacci numbers, PI computation, data encryption and links to calculator programs.
Gardner Index - Rough index to the fifteen books containing Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games articles from Scientific American.
Geometric Packing Problems - By Joseph Malkevitch: "Given one shape X how and when can one pack identical copies of this shape into another shape Y?"
HAKMEM - A collection of problems from MIT. Work reported herein was conducted at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology research program.
Iamond - A page on polyiamond puzzles. Includes many pages on tessellation.
Jlpe's Number Recreations Page - Features original number recreations by the author, such as generalized perfect numbers, digital diversions, diophantine equations, didactic numbers, and number theory.
MAT 007 I News - A newsletter edited by undergraduates of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Toronto. Includes some online copies.
Math Forum: 2001 Mathematics Game - A contest that asks to write all integers from 1 to 100 using only the digits 2,0,0,1 and arithmetic operations.
Math Forum: 2002 Mathematics Game - A contest where the contestants have to write all integers from 1 to 100 using only the digits 2,0,0,2 and arithmetic operations.
Mathematical Fiction - A list of mathematical fictional movies, books, stories, plays and shows. Split into categories including children's books. Can be sorted by mathematical content and literary quality.
Mathematical Induction - A page of uncommon problems, most closely connected with number theory.
Mathematical Quotation Server - A collection of mathematical quotations culled from many sources. You may conduct a keyword search through the quotation database.
Mathematical Spectrum - Mathematical Spectrum is a magazine for students and teachers of mathematics in universities, colleges and schools worldwide. It may be read by anybody interested in mathematics as a recreation.
A Mathematician's Aesthetics - In his classic A Mathematician's Apology, G. H. Hardy likened mathematics to poetry and painting. This site elaborates on Hardy's remark with quotations from Stevens, Klee, Fry, and Focillon. Links to related sites are given.
Mathematics Museum (Japan) - At Mathematics Museum (Japan) you would be surprised how interesting mathematics is. You will find exhibition rooms produced by Japanese researchers and educators.
Mathematik - Individual pages on different topics in Mathematics. Examples : group theory, dynamical systems theory, geometry or number theory.
Mathematische Basteleien - Topics include Flexagon, Soma Cube, Pentominos, Cube-it, Rubik's Cube, Froebel's Star, Tangram, House of Santa Claus, Chronogram, Numeric Palindromes, Latticework of Letters. English/German.
Mathmos - Includes puzzles, jokes, quotations, poetry, and FAQs.
Maze Classification and Algorithms - A short description of mazes and how to create them. Definition of different mazetypes and their algorithms.
Mudd Math Fun Facts - An archive of interesting math facts for use in the classroom or just for fun. Browse by subject, difficulty, keywords, or try the "random" feature. Based at Harvey Mudd College.
Narcissistic Numbers - Those that are representable, in some way, by mathematically manipulating the digits of the numbers themselves.
The Nine Digits Page - Puzzles and problems connected with numbers using the digits 1-9.
One Metaphor Fits All - Explains Conway's audioactive decay that is generated by a particular kind of sequence. Includes illustrations and related resources.
Recmath - Includes pages on magic squares and polyomino patterns and contains related java applets.
Recreational and Educational Computing - A newsletter with programs, including optional supplemental PC disk. All back issues are available. Topics include puzzles and teasers, BASIC programming, letters, graphics, fractals, challenges, recreation, reviews, word-play, humor, tips, solutions, and Mathemagical Black Holes.
Recreational Mathematics Topics - By Steven Dutch. Symmetry, Crystals, Polyhedra and Tilings; Pythagorean triplets and other things about sums of powers; Geometry Classics.
Roman Numerals - Includes a introduction to Roman numerals including a translation of the digits used and a converter which can convert decimal to Roman numerals and vice versa.
SimonSingh.net - Home of Simon Singh: author, journalist and TV producer, specialising in science and mathematics. Cryptography is one of his specialties, and his site has a lot of educational and fun content about codes and codebreaking.
Sir Roger Penrose - An article about him and his interests and contributions to recreational mathematics.
Skytopia - Super Magnet - A colourful world built entirely using mathematical atoms and molecules. Pictures and animations demonstrate structures colliding and interacting. Animated GIF demonstrations.
The Sound of Mathematics - Algorithmic music determined by mathematics and by the musical preferences of a human. General MIDI files.
Spirocharts - A windows application that creates mathematically precise spirograph drawings; savable as images.
Sportlab - Combines high school and college math topics into sports applications.
Stunning Friends with Math Magic - A collection of card tricks, number guessing games, paper and glue magic, and other math exercises.
Table of Numbers Problem - Given a m * n rectangle, place all numbers from 1 to mn that minimizes the sum of the products of rows and columns (both in Spanish and English).
Wade Edward Philpott - Profile and description of his mathematical games and puzzles.
Who Can Name the Bigger Number? - An essay by Scott Aaronson on the quest for ever-bigger numbers, from exponentials to Busy Beavers.
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