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• - Devoted to exploring the more entertaining (and generally lesser known) areas of mathematics. Can be enjoyed by anyone, from individuals with little or no math background to professors of the subject.
  
• - A collection of problems from MIT. Work reported herein was conducted at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology research program.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Visual animations of famous curves.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Profile and description of his mathematical games and puzzles.
  
• - York University's Undergraduate Math Club with informations on math competitions and a problem solving forum.
  
• - A special collection at the University of Calgary, including the archives of Martin Gardner. There is a searchable online index.
  
• - Puzzles and problems connected with numbers using the digits 1-9.
  
• - An interdisciplinary course on mathematics in art and architecture.
  
• - Links collected at CAMEL, the Canadian Mathematical Society website.
  
• - A collection of mathematical quotations culled from many sources. You may conduct a keyword search through the quotation database.
  
• - Includes pages on the topics of primes, fibonacci numbers, PI computation, data encryption and links to calculator programs.
  
• - A guide to major motion pictures with scenes of real mathematics.
  
• - Information on the mathematics of paper folding.
  
• - A windows application that creates mathematically precise spirograph drawings; savable as images.
  
• - A article about him and his interests and contributions to recreational mathematics.
  
• - Designed and built by Andrew Lipson. Images and LDraw files.
  
• - By Joseph Malkevitch: "Given one shape X how and when can one pack identical copies of this shape into another shape Y?"
  
• - Visitors are invited to analyse the verses to discover mathematical puzzles and riddles. They are invited to offer solutions.
  
• - An essay by Scott Aaronson on the quest for ever-bigger numbers, from exponentials to Busy Beavers.
  
• - Features interesting facts about different numbers. Includes favorite related links.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Creates a special kind of summation formula created by John Conway.
  
• - A brief digression into how people perceive symmetrical patterns -- what makes them boring, interesting, or overly intricate
  
• - Rough index to the fifteen books containing Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games articles from Scientific American.
  
• - A newsletter edited by undergraduates of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Toronto. Includes some online copies.
  
• - An extensive list of web resources for recreational math.
  
• - A short description of mazes and how to create them. Definition of different mazetypes and their algorithms.
  
• - Features original number recreations by the author, such as generalized perfect numbers, digital diversions, diophantine equations, didactic numbers, and number theory.
  
• - 70 brain-teasers; a Primer on Cryptarithmetic; books and links to alphametics on the Web.
  
• - Contains math, puzzle, geometry, illusions, mazes, links, articles and problems.
  
• - 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.
  
• - The annual journal of the Archimedeans, the mathematical society of the University of Cambridge. It regularly contains articles on recreational mathematics.
  
• - A collection of card tricks, number guessing games, paper and glue magic, and other math exercises.
  
• - A contest that asks to write all integers from 1 to 100 using only the digits 2,0,0,1 and arithmetic operations.
  
• - Teaching and recreational items in this personal collection.
  
• - This is an article on a set of didactical games edited by the Portuguese Mathematical Society (SPM).
  
• - Polyhedral dice and their properties.
  
• - Mathematics Hots (Problems) by Bruno Kevius
  
• - Includes puzzles, jokes, quotations, poetry, and FAQs.
  
• - A colourful world built entirely using mathematical atoms and molecules. Pictures and animations demonstrate structures colliding and interacting. Animated GIF demonstrations.
  
• - A special collection at the University of Calgary Library.
  
• - Combines high school and college math topics into sports applications.
  
• - Articles and images on recreational math from fractals and magic squares to mathemorchids and Galois.
  
• - 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).
  
• - Includes pages on magic squares and polyomino patterns and contains related java applets.
  
• - At Mathematics Museum (Japan) you would be surprised how interesting mathematics is. You will find exhibition rooms produced by Japanese researchers and educators.
  
• - Contains a complete list of all possible Fair Dice, most of which are not cubes. Includes pictures.
  
• - A fascinating selection of poems by various poets based on the seemingly incongruous aesthetic and theme of mathematics.
  
• - A page of uncommon problems, most closely connected with number theory.
  
• - Algorithmic music determined by mathematics and by the musical preferences of a human. General MIDI files.
  
• - Three categories: defensive - know to check an answer, offensive - fast mental calculations, and math magic.
  
• - By Steven Dutch. Symmetry, Crystals, Polyhedra and Tilings; Pythagorean triplets and other things about sums of powers; Geometry Classics.
  
• - A forum for posting messages about math recreations. Hosted at Delphi.
  
• - A page on polyiamond puzzles. Includes many pages on tessellation.
  
• - Individual pages on different topics in Mathematics. Examples : group theory, dynamical systems theory, geometry or number theory.
  
• - The relation between Fibonacci numbers and Pascal's triangle. English/German/Serbian.
  
• - Mostly original diversions in mathematics and word play.
  
• - Book list split into categories. Includes title, author, publisher and date information about each book.
  
• - Interactive math pages including java Kali and a page on the world's largest prime.
  
• - Book list including titles, authors, publishers, prices, page count and some have links to Amazon.com.
  
• - Interactive java puzzles and activities in different mathematical topics.
  
• - 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).
  
• - Includes description, solutions and other resources on this cube-like puzzle.
  
• - Include news, math tricks, methods, facts, trivia, mostly posted by users.
  
• - Notes on the mathematics of the Rubik's cube.
  
• - 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.
  
• - 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,
  
• - A java applet for creating Spirograph images.
  
• - Explains Conway's audioactive decay that is generated by a particular kind of sequence. Includes illustrations and related resources.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Contains 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.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Those that are representable, in some way, by mathematically manipulating the digits of the numbers themselves.
  
• - View this week's algebra problem or those of previous weeks.
  
  

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