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» Famous Curves Index
![]() ![]() Curves you've heard of and curves you haven't, from Astroid to the Witch of Agnesi. http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Curves.html Sites:
» 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. http://finitegeometry.org/sc/ph/aesthetics.html » Amazing Spiro
![]() An applet for making spirograph graphs. Includes options for size, color and shape. Allows saving of completed image. http://cgibin.erols.com/ziring/cgi-bin/spiro.pl/spiro.html » Back to Square One
![]() Includes description, solutions and other resources on this cube-like puzzle. http://www.jaapsch.net/puzzles/square1.htm » Cryptarithms Online
![]() A large collection of cryptarithms and alphametics, including cryptarithms from the journal Sphinx, a Primer on Cryptarithmetic, books, and links to other collections of alphametics on the Web. http://cryptarithms.awardspace.us/ » CuriousMath
![]() Include news, math tricks, methods, facts, trivia, mostly posted by users. http://www.curiousmath.com/ » David Singmaster: List of Available Material
![]() Teaching and recreational items in this personal collection. http://anduin.eldar.org/~problemi/singmast/material.html » Eric's Scientific Book List: Recreational Mathematics
![]() Book list from Eric Weisstein including titles, authors, publishers, prices, page count and some have links to Amazon.com. http://www.ericweisstein.com/encyclopedias/books/RecreationalMathematics.html » Eureka
![]() The annual journal of the Archimedeans, the mathematical society of the University of Cambridge. It regularly contains articles on recreational mathematics. http://www.archim.org.uk/eureka/ » Fair Dice
![]() Includes a complete list of all possible Fair Dice, most of which are not cubes. Includes pictures. http://www.mathpuzzle.com/Fairdice.htm » Fast Arithmetic Tips
![]() Three categories: defensive - know to check an answer, offensive - fast mental calculations, and math magic. http://www.cut-the-knot.org/arithmetic/rapid/ » Fibonacci Numbers and the Pascal Triangle
![]() The relation between Fibonacci numbers and Pascal's triangle. English/German/Serbian. http://milan.milanovic.org/math/ » Final Answers
![]() Numerous facts including formulas, magic tricks, fallacies and recreations compiled by Dr. Gerard P. Michon. http://www.numericana.com/answer/ » Fun With Mathematics
![]() Harry J. Smith provides pages on the topics of primes, fibonacci numbers, PI computation, data encryption and many other puzzles, and links to calculator programs. http://harry-j-smith.com/hjsmithh/ » Gardner Index
![]() Rough index to the fifteen books containing Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games articles from Scientific American. http://www.ms.uky.edu/~lee/ma502/gardner5/gardner5.html » 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?" http://www.york.cuny.edu/~malk/tidbits/tidbit-geometric-packing.html » HAKMEM
![]() A collection of problems from MIT. Work reported herein was conducted at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology research program. http://www.inwap.com/pdp10/hbaker/hakmem/hakmem.html » How to Manually Find a Square Root
![]() Provides a method of finding a square root without the use of a calculator. http://math.arizona.edu/~kerl/doc/square-root.html » Iamond
![]() A page on polyiamond puzzles. Includes many pages on tessellation. http://www.mathpuzzle.com/iamond.htm » Look and Say Sequence Generator
![]() Creates a special kind of summation formula created by John Conway. http://www.btinternet.com/~se16/js/looknsay.htm » MAA Library List in Recreational Mathematics
![]() Book list split into categories. Includes title, author, publisher and date information about each book. http://www.maa.org/BLL/recmath.htm » MAT 007 I News
![]() A newsletter edited by undergraduates of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Toronto. Includes some online copies. http://www.math.toronto.edu/007/ » 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. http://mathforum.org/~judyann/2001/ » 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. http://mathforum.org/~judyann/2002/ » Math Forum: Algebra Problem of the Week
![]() View this week's algebra problem or those of previous weeks. http://mathforum.org/algpow/ » Math Magic By Computer
![]() Interactive java puzzles and activities in different mathematical topics. http://www.cut-the-knot.org/Curriculum/index.shtml#magic » Math in the Movies
![]() A guide to major motion pictures with scenes of real mathematics. http://world.std.com/~reinhold/mathmovies.html » 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. http://math.cofc.edu/faculty/kasman/MATHFICT/ » Mathematical Induction
![]() A page of uncommon problems, most closely connected with number theory. http://www.math.cl/induction.html » Mathematical Lego Sculptures
![]() Designed and built by Andrew Lipson. Images and LDraw files. http://www.andrewlipson.com/mathlego.htm » Mathematical Problems - Problem Solving
![]() Mathematics Hots (Problems) by Bruno Kevius http://mathres.kevius.com/problem.html » Mathematical Quotation Server
![]() A collection of mathematical quotations culled from many sources. You may conduct a keyword search through the quotation database. http://math.furman.edu/~mwoodard/mqs/mquot.shtml » 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. http://mathmuse.sci.ibaraki.ac.jp/indexE.html » Mathematics in Art and Architecture
![]() An interdisciplinary course on mathematics in art and architecture. http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/teaching/math-art-arch.shtml » Mathematik
![]() Individual pages on different topics in Mathematics. Examples : group theory, dynamical systems theory, geometry or number theory. http://www.mathematik.com/ » 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. http://www.mathematische-basteleien.de/ » Mathematrix
![]() Have fun with geometric shapes, fractals, math games, art, humor, quotes, and important constants. http://home.adelphi.edu/~stemkoski/mathematrix/ » Maze Classification and Algorithms
![]() A short description of mazes and how to create them. Definition of different mazetypes and their algorithms. http://www.astrolog.org/labyrnth/algrithm.htm » 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. http://www.math.hmc.edu/funfacts/ » Number Recreations by Shyam Sunder Gupta
![]() Features interesting facts about different numbers. Includes favorite related links. http://www.shyamsundergupta.com/ » On the Puzzles with Polyhedra and Numbers
![]() This is an article on a set of didactical games edited by the Portuguese Mathematical Society (SPM). http://gfm.cii.fc.ul.pt/people/jrezende/jr_poliedros-puzzles_en.pdf » One Metaphor Fits All
![]() Explains Conway's audioactive decay that is generated by a particular kind of sequence. Includes illustrations and related resources. http://www.btinternet.com/~se16/mhi/ » Origami Mathematics
![]() Information on the mathematics of paper folding. http://kahuna.merrimack.edu/~thull/OrigamiMath.html » Pretty Wild Narcissistic Numbers
![]() Dr Colin Rose provides some examples of numbers that are representable by mathematically manipulating the digits of the numbers themselves. http://www.numq.com/pwn/ » Recmath
![]() Includes pages on magic squares and polyomino patterns and contains related java applets. http://www3.sympatico.ca/diharper/ » Recreational Mathematics
![]() Links collected at CAMEL, the Canadian Mathematical Society website. http://camel.math.ca/Recreation/recreation.html » Recreational Mathematics (David Eppstein)
![]() An extensive list of web resources for recreational math. http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/recmath.html » Recreational Mathematics Forum
![]() A forum for posting messages about math recreations. Hosted at Delphi. http://forums.delphiforums.com/recmath/ » Recreational Mathematics Topics
![]() By Steven Dutch. Symmetry, Crystals, Polyhedra and Tilings; Pythagorean triplets and other things about sums of powers; Geometry Classics. http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/RECMATH/recmath.htm » 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. http://www.novaroma.org/via_romana/numbers.html » Rubik's Cube Lecture Notes
![]() Notes on the mathematics of the Rubik's cube. http://www.usna.edu/Users/math/wdj/rubik_nts.htm » 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. http://www.simonsingh.net/ » Sir Roger Penrose
![]() An article about him and his interests and contributions to recreational mathematics. http://www.worldofescher.com/misc/penrose.html » Skytopia - Super Magnet
![]() A colourful world built entirely using mathematical atoms and molecules. Pictures and animations demonstrate structures colliding and interacting. Animated GIF demonstrations. http://www.skytopia.com/project/magnet/magnet.html » Spirocharts
![]() A windows application that creates mathematically precise spirograph drawings; savable as images. http://www.nehuenmultimedia.com.ar/html/spirograph.html » Stunning Friends with Math Magic
![]() A collection of card tricks, number guessing games, paper and glue magic, and other math exercises. http://www.cut-the-knot.org/arithmetic/rapid/magic.shtml » 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). http://www.alpertron.com.ar/CUADRO.HTM » The Aesthetics of Symmetry
![]() A brief digression into how people perceive symmetrical patterns -- what makes them boring, interesting, or overly intricate http://home.earthlink.net/~jdc24/symmetry.htm » 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). http://finitegeometry.org/sc/16/puzzle/ » 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. http://www.ucalgary.ca/lib-old/SpecColl/strens.htm » The Nine Digits Page
![]() Puzzles and problems connected with numbers using the digits 1-9. http://www.worldofnumbers.com/ninedig1.htm » The Sound of Mathematics
![]() Algorithmic music determined by mathematics and by the musical preferences of a human. General MIDI files. http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/classic/message11825.html » Wade Edward Philpott
![]() Profile and description of his mathematical games and puzzles. http://www.gamepuzzles.com/wade.htm » Which Numbers Produce Carousel Numbers?
![]() High school research project. http://carouselnumbers.webs.com » Who Can Name the Bigger Number?
![]() An essay by Scott Aaronson on the quest for ever-bigger numbers, from exponentials to Busy Beavers. http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html This category needs an editor
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