Recreations
Recreations Links
- Famous Curves Index Curves you've heard of and curves you haven't, from Astroid to the Witch of Agnesi.
- Sir Roger Penrose A article about him and his interests and contributions to recreational mathematics.
- Recreational Mathematics Forum A forum for posting messages about recreations in math. Hosted at Delphi.
- Nim Description of the old mathematical game Nim, with links to other resources.
- Puzzle Fun On-line newsletter edited by Rodolfo Kurchan about polyominoes and other puzzles.
- HAKMEM A collection of problems from MIT. Work reported herein was conducted at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology research program.
- Challenging Mathematical Problems Contains algebra, geometry, number theory, inequalities, Combinatorics, probability and analysis problems. Includes hints but no solutions.
- The Sound of Mathematics Algorithmic music determined by mathematics and by the musical preferences of a human. General MIDI files.
- Soft T-shirts with Beautiful Math Images MathImage t-shirts have artistic math graphs and equations in soft and brilliantly colored sublimation images (even after a hundred washes).
- Recmath Includes pages on magic squares and polyomino patterns and contains related java applets.
- World of Numbers Contains a collection of randomly gathered numbers, curios, puzzles, palindromes and primes.
- Books and Articles on Mathematical Recreations Information on list includes titles, authors, publishers and paperback or hardcover.
- Mathematical Problems - Problem Solving Mathematics Hots (Problems) by Bruno Kevius
- The rec.puzzles Archive This newsgroup archive is a list of puzzles, categorized by subject area. Each puzzle includes a solution, compiled from various sources, which is supposed to be definitive.
- Fair Dice Contains a complete list of all possible Fair Dice, most of which are not cubes. Includes pictures.
- Decimal to Hexadecimal Conversion A table to convert any number from 1 to 255 to Hexadecimal.
- Math Forum: Algebra Problem Search Try to solve the Algebra Problem of the Week and search this week's algebra problem or those of previous weeks.
- Rite Item Geometrical shareware software. Anyangle (Windows/DOS) finds answers to problems involving triangles. Partydot creates patterns.
- Journal of Recreational Mathematics A journal devoted to the lighter side of mathematics. Recent abstracts are available free, articles may be purchased.
- 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?
- 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.
- Gardner Index Rough index to the fifteen books containing Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games articles from Scientific American.
- Wade Edward Philpott Profile and description of his mathematical games and puzzles.
- Mathematics for Fun Interactive math pages including java Kali and a page on the world's largest prime.
- Alphametics and Cryptarithms Cryptarithms are puzzles in which letters or symbols are substituted for the digits in an arithmetical calculation. If a cryptarithm utilizes letters in place of the digits, and these letters form sensible words or phrases, the puzzle is termed an alphametic.
- The Chaos Hypertextbook The theory behind the sumptuous images and technical jargon of chaos, fractals, and nonlinear dynamics. Simple experiments for programmable calculators, instructions for drawing fractal images, the meanings of dimension, and more.
- REC: Recreational and Educational Computing A newsletter/magazine with programs, including optional supplemental PC disk. All back issues are available. Topics include puzzles & teasers, BASIC programming, math, letters, graphics, fractals, challenges, recreation, reviews, word-play, humor, tips, solutions, and Mathemagical Black Holes.
- Scott Kim Puzzles for web, computers, and print.
- Maths Quiz 2000 A contest to be played on the internet on 17 October as part of the World Mathematics Year.
- MAA library list in Recreational Mathematics Contains book list split into categories. Includes title, author, publisher and date information about each book.
- 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.
- Roman Numerals and Roman dates Includes conversion tables, a page on their history and usage and a page on how to write the year 1999 in Roman Numerals.
- Recreational Mathematics Links collected at CAMEL, the Canadian Mathematical Society website.
- Mathematical Quotation Server Furman University Mathematical Quotation Server - random or searchable math quotes.
- Clever Games for Clever People Games that interest John Conway including Rim and Traffic Jam.
- 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.
- U of T Mathematics Network Includes interactive games, problems and puzzles including the Monty Hall Problem and the Tower of Hanoi and questions pages with answers and discussion.
- Mathematics in Art and Architecture An interdisciplinary course on mathematics in art and architecture.
- EFF Cooperative Computing Awards Between $100,000 and $250,000 will go to the first individual or group who discovers a new prime number above 10 million digits.
- Bob's Positive Integer Pages Various articles about positive integers, including an alternative number system that avoids the digit and number zero, a look at number systems and at the concept of zero.
- Zoma's Land O'Logic Home of a logic puzzle called "Who Rode the Goat?". Includes Solution.
- MAT 007 I News Information A recreational mathematical newsletter edited by undergraduates of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Toronto and printed bioccasionally (twice annually).
- Math in the Movies A guide to major motion pictures with scenes of real mathematics.
- Mathematical Quotation Server A collection of mathematical quotations culled from many sources. You may conduct a keyword search through the quotation database.
- Gathering for Gardner Contains math, puzzle, geometry, illusions, mazes, links, articles and problems.
- Mathematical Poetry - A Small Anthology A fascinating selection of poems by various poets based on the seemingly incongruous aesthetic and theme of mathematics.
- Mathletics - a complete mathematics resource Mathematics, puzzles, conversions, areas, volumes, integration and other mathematics based resources. The puzzles range from the medium to hard difficulty level.
- Rubik's Cube Lecture Notes Notes on the mathematics of the Rubik's cube.
- Eureka The annual journal of the Archimedeans, the mathematical society of the University of Cambridge. It regularly contains articles on recreational mathematics.
- A Primer on Cryptarithmetic Instructions, examples, references and links.
- Recreational Mathematics University of Newcastle, Australia. Pages, links.
- 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).
- 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.
- Cryptarithms Online 70 brain-teasers; a Primer on Cryptarithmetic; books and links to alphametics on the Web.
- Iamond A page on polyiamond puzzles. Includes many pages on tessellation.
- Bamdad's Math Comics Page A collection of math-related comics and cartoons.
- Mathematik Individual pages on different topics in Mathematics. Examples : group theory, dynamical systems theory, geometry or number theory.
- 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.
- Impossible Constructions and Other Optical Illusions Impossible constructions between mathematics and art (in German).
- Fun With Mathematics Includes pages on the topics of primes, fibonacci numbers, PI computation, data encryption and links to calculator programs.
- The Eugène Strens Recreational Mathematics Collection A special collection at the University of Calgary, including the archives of Martin Gardner. There is a searchable online index.
- Recreational Mathematics Topics By Steven Dutch. Symmetry, Crystals, Polyhedra and Tilings; Pythagorean triplets and other things about sums of powers; Geometry Classics.
- Pocket Calculator Online calculator, written in Java. Includes Square root button and number memory. Source code can be downloaded.
- Math Cats A magic chalkboard takes you to a math art gallery and lots of interactive math activities, including: magic squares, conversions, seasonal surveys, symmetry, tessellations, geometric designs, games.
- Mathematrix Mathematrix is a web site devoted to exploring mathematical recreations - the more entertaining (and generally lesser known) areas of mathematics. This site can be enjoyed by anyone, from individuals with little or no math background to professors of the subject.
- Treasure Troves : Book List Book list including titles, authors, publishers, prices, page count and some have links to Amazon.com.
- MathPro Online: Online Reference to Mathematical Problems database currently contains 20,945 math problems from 38 journals and 21 contests
- David Singmaster: List of Available Material Teaching and recreational items in this personal collection.
- Mathpuzzle.com Celebrates math puzzles and Mathematical Recreations.
- Roman Numerals Contains a introduction to Roman numerals including a translation of the digits used and a convertor which can convert decimal to Roman numerals and vice versa.
- Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden section in Nature Puzzles and things to do, for schools, teachers, colleges up to university level students, or just for recreation.
- Origami Mathematics Information on the mathematics of paper folding.
- The Nine Digits Page Puzzles and problems connected with numbers using the digits 1-9.
- Jongmin's Math Riddles Including 'Problem of Week' and other math problems covering algebra, geometry, probability, calculus puzzle and the Fibonacci sequence.
- Recreational Mathematics (David Eppstein) An extensive list of web resources for recreational math.
- Back to Square One Includes description, solutions and other resources on this cube-like puzzle.
- Mathematische Basteleien Flexagon, Soma Cube, Pentominos, Cube-it, Rubik's Cube, Froebel's Star, Tangram, House of Santa Claus, Chronogram, Numeric Palindromes, Latticework of Letters
- Logic Puzzles Collection of original numerical-logic puzzles. Many are long and difficult, involve sorting and comparing long lists and are intended to be solved using a good spreadsheet program.
- Narcissistic Numbers Those that are representable, in some way, by mathematically manipulating the digits of the numbers themselves.
- Search Snark A Spanish math mailing list for topics related to recreational mathematics, creative logic problems, board and strategy games, geometry puzzlers and other brain-teasers).
- Math Doodle Sells t-shirts and mugs with mathematical proofs printed on them including the Divine Section and the volume of a sphere.
- Mathematical Induction A page of uncommon problems, most closely connected with number theory.
- Wade Edward Philpott Collection A special collection at the University of Calgary Library.
- Properties of Dice Polyhedral dice and their properties.
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