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http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Curves.html

» Famous Curves Index

- Curves you've heard of and curves you haven't, from Astroid to the Witch of Agnesi.

http://home.earthlink.net/~jdc24/symmetry.htm

» The Aesthetics of Symmetry - A brief digression into how people perceive symmetrical patterns -- what makes them boring, interesting, or overly intricate

http://cgibin.erols.com/ziring/cgi-bin/spiro.pl/spiro.html

» Amazing Spiro - An applet for making spirograph graphs. Includes options for size, color and shape. Allows saving of completed image.

http://www.geocities.com/jaapsch/puzzles/square1.htm

» Back to Square One - Includes description, solutions and other resources on this cube-like puzzle.

http://www.gwywyr.com/articles/scimaths/

» Critical Math - Articles and images on recreational math from fractals and magic squares to mathemorchids and Galois.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/2160/

» 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.

http://anduin.eldar.org/~problemi/singmast/material.html

» David Singmaster: List of Available Material - Teaching and recreational items in this personal collection.

» 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://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/System/8956/problems/pyth.htm

» 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.

http://www.ericweisstein.com/encyclopedias/books/RecreationalMathematics.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.ucalgary.ca/lib-old/SpecColl/strens.htm

» 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.

» 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.

» Famous Curves - Visual animations of famous curves.

http://www.cut-the-knot.org/arithmetic/rapid/

» Fast Arithmetic Tips - Three categories: defensive - know to check an answer, offensive - fast mental calculations, and math magic.

$http://milan.milanovic.org/math/$

» Fibonacci numbers and the Pascal triangle - The relation between Fibonacci numbers and Pascal's triangle. English/German/Serbian.

» 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.

http://www.ms.uky.edu/~lee/ma502/gardner5/gardner5.html

» Gardner Index - Rough index to the fifteen books containing Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games articles from Scientific American.

http://www.york.cuny.edu/~malk/tidbits/tidbit-geometric-packing.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.inwap.com/pdp10/hbaker/hakmem/hakmem.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.

$http://math.arizona.edu/~kerl/doc/square-root.html$

» How To Manually Find A Square Root - The way to do find a square root without a calculator.

» Iamond - A page on polyiamond puzzles. Includes many pages on tessellation.

http://www.geocities.com/windmill96/numrecreations.html

» 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.

http://www.btinternet.com/~se16/js/looknsay.htm

» Look and Say Sequence Generator - Creates a special kind of summation formula created by John Conway.

» MAA Library List in Recreational Mathematics - Book list split into categories. Includes title, author, publisher and date information about each book.

$http://www.math.toronto.edu/007/$

» 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.

» Math Forum: Algebra Problem of the Week - View this week's algebra problem or those of previous weeks.

http://world.std.com/~reinhold/mathmovies.html

» Math in the Movies - A guide to major motion pictures with scenes of real mathematics.

http://www.cut-the-knot.org/Curriculum/index.shtml#magic

» Math Magic By Computer - Interactive java puzzles and activities in different mathematical topics.

$http://math.cofc.edu/faculty/kasman/MATHFICT/$

» 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.

$http://www.math.cl/induction.html$

» Mathematical Induction - A page of uncommon problems, most closely connected with number theory.

http://www.andrewlipson.com/mathlego.htm

» Mathematical Lego Sculptures - Designed and built by Andrew Lipson. Images and LDraw files.

» Mathematical Problems - Problem Solving - Mathematics Hots (Problems) by Bruno Kevius

$http://math.furman.edu/~mwoodard/mqs/mquot.shtml$

» Mathematical Quotation Server - Furman University Mathematical Quotation Server - random or searchable math quotes.

$http://math.furman.edu/~mwoodard/mquot.html$

» 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.

http://finitegeometry.org/sc/ph/aesthetics.html

» 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.

$http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/teaching/math-art-arch.shtml$

» Mathematics in Art and Architecture - An interdisciplinary course on mathematics in art and architecture.

http://mathmuse.sci.ibaraki.ac.jp/indexE.html

» 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.

http://www.astrolog.org/labyrnth/algrithm.htm

» Maze Classification and Algorithms - A short description of mazes and how to create them. Definition of different mazetypes and their algorithms.

$http://www.math.hmc.edu/funfacts/$

» 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.geocities.com/~harveyh/narciss.htm

» Narcissistic Numbers - Those that are representable, in some way, by mathematically manipulating the digits of the numbers themselves.

http://www.worldofnumbers.com/ninedig1.htm

» The Nine Digits Page - Puzzles and problems connected with numbers using the digits 1-9.

» Number Recreations by Shyam Sunder Gupta - Features interesting facts about different numbers. Includes favorite related links.

http://gfm.cii.fc.ul.pt/people/jrezende/jr_poliedros-puzzles_en.pdf

» On the Puzzles with Polyhedra and Numbers - This is an article on a set of didactical games edited by the Portuguese Mathematical Society (SPM). [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.merrimack.edu/~thull/OrigamiMath.html

» Origami Mathematics - Information on the mathematics of paper folding.

http://hjem.get2net.dk/Klaudius/Dice.htm

» Properties of Dice - Polyhedral dice and their properties.

» Recmath - Includes pages on magic squares and polyomino patterns and contains related java applets.

$http://camel.math.ca/Recreation/recreation.html$

» Recreational Mathematics - Links collected at CAMEL, the Canadian Mathematical Society website.

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/recmath.html

» Recreational Mathematics (David Eppstein) - An extensive list of web resources for recreational math.

» Recreational Mathematics Forum - A forum for posting messages about math recreations. Hosted at Delphi.

http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/RECMATH/recmath.htm

» Recreational Mathematics Topics - By Steven Dutch. Symmetry, Crystals, Polyhedra and Tilings; Pythagorean triplets and other things about sums of powers; Geometry Classics.

http://www.novaroma.org/via_romana/numbers.html

» 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://web.usna.navy.mil/~wdj/rubik_nts.htm

» Rubik's Cube Lecture Notes - Notes on the mathematics of the Rubik's cube.

» 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.worldofescher.com/misc/penrose.html

» Sir Roger Penrose - An article about him and his interests and contributions to recreational mathematics.

http://www.skytopia.com/project/magnet/magnet.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.

» The Sound of Mathematics - Algorithmic music determined by mathematics and by the musical preferences of a human. General MIDI files.

http://www.nehuenmultimedia.com.ar/html/spirograph.html

» Spirocharts - A windows application that creates mathematically precise spirograph drawings; savable as images.

» Sportlab - Combines high school and college math topics into sports applications.

http://www.cut-the-knot.org/arithmetic/rapid/magic.shtml

» 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.

http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html

» 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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