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Chaos and Fractals (279) Combinatorial Games (18) Competitions (54) |
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Polyominoes (47) Specific Numbers (121) Tessellations (28) |
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| Famous Curves Index - http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Curves.html
Curves you've heard of and curves you haven't, from Astroid to the Witch of Agnesi. | |
| Mathematical Quotation Server - http://math.furman.edu/~mwoodard/mquot.html
A collection of mathematical quotations culled from many sources. You may conduct a keyword search through the quotation database. | |
| Bamdad's Math Comics Page - http://www.csun.edu/~hcmth014/comics.html
A collection of math-related comics and cartoons. | |
| Clever Games for Clever People - http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/%7Ecasey931/conway/games.html
Games that interest John Conway including Rim and Traffic Jam. | |
| The rec.puzzles Archive - http://einstein.et.tudelft.nl/~arlet/puzzles/
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. |
| Maths Quiz 2000 - http://www.mq2000.org/
A contest to be played on the internet on 17 October as part of the World Mathematics Year. | |
| EFF Cooperative Computing Awards - http://www.eff.org/coop-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. | |
| Math Cats - http://www.mathcats.com
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. | |
| Mudd Math Fun Facts - http://www.math.hmc.edu/funfacts/
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. | |
| Scott Kim - http://www.scottkim.com/
Puzzles for web, computers, and print. |
| Mathpuzzle.com - http://www.mathpuzzle.com/
Celebrates math puzzles and Mathematical Recreations. | |
| MathPro Online: Online Reference to Mathematical Problems - http://problems.math.umr.edu/index.htm
database currently contains 20,945 math problems from 38 journals and 21 contests | |
| The Chaos Hypertextbook - http://hypertextbook.com/chaos/
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. | |
| Math in the Movies - http://world.std.com/~reinhold/mathmovies.html
A guide to major motion pictures with scenes of real mathematics. | |
| The Sound of Mathematics - http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/9349/
Algorithmic music determined by mathematics and by the musical preferences of a human. General MIDI files. |
| Recreational Mathematics (David Eppstein) - http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/recmath.html
An extensive list of web resources for recreational math. | |
| Origami Mathematics - http://web.merrimack.edu/~thull/OrigamiMath.html
Information on the mathematics of paper folding. | |
| Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden section in Nature - http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibnat.html
Puzzles and things to do, for schools, teachers, colleges up to university level students, or just for recreation. | |
| Mathematics for Fun - http://www.thinks.com/math/index.htm
Interactive math pages including java Kali and a page on the world's largest prime. | |
| Roman Numerals and Roman dates - http://www.deadline.demon.co.uk/roman/front.htm
Includes conversion tables, a page on their history and usage and a page on how to write the year 1999 in Roman Numerals. |
| HAKMEM - http://www.inwap.com/pdp10/hbaker/hakmem/hakmem.html
A collection of problems from MIT. Work reported herein was conducted at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology research program. | |
| Sir Roger Penrose - http://www.worldofescher.com/misc/penrose.html
A article about him and his interests and contributions to recreational mathematics. | |
| Mathematical Quotation Server - http://math.furman.edu/~mwoodard/mqs/mquot.shtml
Furman University Mathematical Quotation Server - random or searchable math quotes. | |
| Mathematical Poetry - A Small Anthology - http://kate.stange.com/mathweb/mathpoet.html
A fascinating selection of poems by various poets based on the seemingly incongruous aesthetic and theme of mathematics. | |
| Fun With Mathematics - http://pw1.netcom.com/~hjsmith/
Includes pages on the topics of primes, fibonacci numbers, PI computation, data encryption and links to calculator programs. |
| Math Forum: Algebra Problem Search - http://forum.swarthmore.edu/algpow/powgrepform.html
Try to solve the Algebra Problem of the Week and search this week's algebra problem or those of previous weeks. | |
| Mathematrix - http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/7773/index.html
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. | |
| Books and Articles on Mathematical Recreations - http://bruichladdich.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/mathrecsFolder/books.html
Information on list includes titles, authors, publishers and paperback or hardcover. | |
| Table of Numbers Problem - http://www.alpertron.com.ar/CUADRO.HTM
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 Spectrum - http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/companies/apt/ms.html
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. |
| Rubik's Cube Lecture Notes - http://web.usna.navy.mil/~wdj/rubik_nts.htm
Notes on the mathematics of the Rubik's cube. | |
| REC: Recreational and Educational Computing - http://members.aol.com/DrMWEcker/REC.html
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. | |
| U of T Mathematics Network - http://www.math.toronto.edu/mathnet/probpuzz.html
Includes interactive games, problems and puzzles including the Monty Hall Problem and the Tower of Hanoi and questions pages with answers and discussion. | |
| Mathematical Problems - Problem Solving - http://www.abc.se/~m9847/matre/problem.html
Mathematics Hots (Problems) by Bruno Kevius | |
| Gathering for Gardner - http://www.g4g4.com
Contains math, puzzle, geometry, illusions, mazes, links, articles and problems. |
| Mathematical Induction - http://www.geocities.com/jespinos57/induction.htm
A page of uncommon problems, most closely connected with number theory. | |
| MAT 007 I News Information - http://www.math.toronto.edu/007/
A recreational mathematical newsletter edited by undergraduates of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Toronto and printed bioccasionally (twice annually). | |
| Fair Dice - http://www.mathpuzzle.com/Fairdice.htm
Contains a complete list of all possible Fair Dice, most of which are not cubes. Includes pictures. | |
| Recreational Mathematics - http://camel.math.ca/Recreation/recreation.html
Links collected at CAMEL, the Canadian Mathematical Society website. | |
| A Primer on Cryptarithmetic - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/2160/primer.html
Instructions, examples, references and links. |
| World of Numbers - http://www.worldofnumbers.com/
Contains a collection of randomly gathered numbers, curios, puzzles, palindromes and primes. | |
| Iamond - http://www.mathpuzzle.com/iamond.htm
A page on polyiamond puzzles. Includes many pages on tessellation. | |
| Recreational Mathematics Topics - http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/RECMATH/recmath.htm
By Steven Dutch. Symmetry, Crystals, Polyhedra and Tilings; Pythagorean triplets and other things about sums of powers; Geometry Classics. | |
| Gardner Index - http://www.ms.uky.edu/~lee/ma502/gardner5/gardner5.html
Rough index to the fifteen books containing Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games articles from Scientific American. | |
| Mathematics Museum (Japan) - http://mathmuse.sci.ibaraki.ac.jp/indexE.html
At Mathematics Museum (Japan) you would be surprised how interesting mathematics is. You will find exhibition rooms produced by Japanese researchers and educators. |
| Eureka - http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/archim/eureka/
The annual journal of the Archimedeans, the mathematical society of the University of Cambridge. It regularly contains articles on recreational mathematics. | |
| Decimal to Hexadecimal Conversion - http://www.jaworski.com/htmlbook/dec-hex.htm
A table to convert any number from 1 to 255 to Hexadecimal. | |
| Mathematical Fiction - http://math.cofc.edu/faculty/kasman/MATHFICT/Default.html
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 - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/2160
70 brain-teasers; a Primer on Cryptarithmetic; books and links to alphametics on the Web. | |
| Roman Numerals - http://www.novaroma.org/via_romana/numbers.html
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. |
| Journal of Recreational Mathematics - http://www.baywood.com/search/PreviewJournal.asp?qsRecord=18
A journal devoted to the lighter side of mathematics. Recent abstracts are available free, articles may be purchased. | |
| Mathematik - http://www.mathematik.com/
Individual pages on different topics in Mathematics. Examples : group theory, dynamical systems theory, geometry or number theory. | |
| Recmath - http://web.idirect.com/~recmath/
Includes pages on magic squares and polyomino patterns and contains related java applets. | |
| Puzzle Fun - http://anduin.eldar.org/~problemi/pfun/pfun.html
On-line newsletter edited by Rodolfo Kurchan about polyominoes and other puzzles. | |
| MAA library list in Recreational Mathematics - http://www.maa.org/BLL/recmath.htm
Contains book list split into categories. Includes title, author, publisher and date information about each book. |
| Pocket Calculator - http://www.df.lth.se/~mikaelb/pocketcalc-enu.shtml
Online calculator, written in Java. Includes Square root button and number memory. Source code can be downloaded. | |
| David Singmaster: List of Available Material - http://anduin.eldar.org/~problemi/singmast/material.html
Teaching and recreational items in this personal collection. | |
| Mathletics - a complete mathematics resource - http://www.mathletic.co.uk
Mathematics, puzzles, conversions, areas, volumes, integration and other mathematics based resources. The puzzles range from the medium to hard difficulty level. | |
| Wade Edward Philpott - http://www.gamepuzzles.com/wade.htm
Profile and description of his mathematical games and puzzles. | |
| Properties of Dice - http://hjem.get2net.dk/Klaudius/Dice.htm
Polyhedral dice and their properties. |
| Soft T-shirts with Beautiful Math Images - http://www.mathimage.com
MathImage t-shirts have artistic math graphs and equations in soft and brilliantly colored sublimation images (even after a hundred washes). | |
| Mathematics in Art and Architecture - http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/teaching/math-art-arch.shtml
An interdisciplinary course on mathematics in art and architecture. | |
| Bob's Positive Integer Pages - http://www.tbaytel.net/~forslund/bob.html
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. | |
| Narcissistic Numbers - http://www.geocities.com/~harveyh/narciss.htm
Those that are representable, in some way, by mathematically manipulating the digits of the numbers themselves. | |
| Back to Square One - http://www.org2.com/jaap/puzzles/square1.htm
Includes description, solutions and other resources on this cube-like puzzle. |
| The Eug�ne Strens Recreational Mathematics Collection - http://www.ucalgary.ca/library/SpecColl/strens.htm
A special collection at the University of Calgary, including the archives of Martin Gardner. There is a searchable online index. | |
| Zoma's Land O'Logic - http://www.jacksonville.net/~dstern/logic.htm
Home of a logic puzzle called "Who Rode the Goat?". Includes Solution. | |
| Mathematische Basteleien - http://members.tripod.de/jkoeller
Flexagon, Soma Cube, Pentominos, Cube-it, Rubik's Cube, Froebel's Star, Tangram, House of Santa Claus, Chronogram, Numeric Palindromes, Latticework of Letters | |
| Recreational Mathematics - http://maths.newcastle.edu.au/maths/OMA/RecMaths.html
University of Newcastle, Australia. Pages, links. | |
| Alphametics and Cryptarithms - http://www.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de/~sillke/PUZZLES/ALPHAMETIC/
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. |
| Logic Puzzles - http://www.geocities.com/bob_kraus_2000
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. | |
| Rite Item - http://www.riteitem.com/
Geometrical shareware software. Anyangle (Windows/DOS) finds answers to problems involving triangles. Partydot creates patterns. | |
| The Nine Digits Page - http://www.ping.be/~ping6758/ninedigits.htm
Puzzles and problems connected with numbers using the digits 1-9. | |
| Wade Edward Philpott Collection - http://www.ucalgary.ca/library/SpecColl/philpott.htm
A special collection at the University of Calgary Library. | |
| Impossible Constructions and Other Optical Illusions - http://members.aol.com/MWKE802/Escher.html
Impossible constructions between mathematics and art (in German). |
| Math Doodle - http://www.mathdoodle.com
Sells t-shirts and mugs with mathematical proofs printed on them including the Divine Section and the volume of a sphere. | |
| Jongmin's Math Riddles - http://www.crosswinds.net/~chunjaemanse3/frame.html
Including 'Problem of Week' and other math problems covering algebra, geometry, probability, calculus puzzle and the Fibonacci sequence. | |
| A Disproof of Pythagoras' Theorem? - http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/System/8956/problems/pyth.htm
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. | |
| Geometric Packing Problems - http://www.york.cuny.edu/~malk/tidbits/tidbit-geometric-packing.html
by Joseph Malkevitch. Given one shape X how and when can one pack identical copies of this shape into another shape Y? | |
| Search Snark - http://forum.swarthmore.edu/discussions/epi-search/snark-l.html
A Spanish math mailing list for topics related to recreational mathematics, creative logic problems, board and strategy games, geometry puzzlers and other brain-teasers). |
| Nim - http://www.crosswinds.net/~sjhsniffen/nim.html
Description of the old mathematical game Nim, with links to other resources. | |
| Challenging Mathematical Problems - http://donut.math.toronto.edu/~naoki/mathprob.html
Contains algebra, geometry, number theory, inequalities, Combinatorics, probability and analysis problems. Includes hints but no solutions. | |
| Treasure Troves : Book List - http://www.treasure-troves.com/books/RecreationalMathematics.html
Book list including titles, authors, publishers, prices, page count and some have links to Amazon.com. | |
| Recreational Mathematics Forum - http://www.delphi.com/recmath/start/
A forum for posting messages about recreations in math. Hosted at Delphi. |
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