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46 sites in Recreations
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Book list from Eric Weisstein including titles, authors, publishers, prices, page count and some have links to Amazon.com.
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Articles and images on recreational math from fractals and magic squares to mathemorchids and Galois.
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A collection of card tricks, number guessing games, paper and glue magic, and other math exercises.
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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.
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The way to do find a square root without a calculator.
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An essay by Scott Aaronson on the quest for ever-bigger numbers, from exponentials to Busy Beavers.
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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.
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Includes pages on magic squares and polyomino patterns and contains related java applets.
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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.
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Numerous facts including formulas, magic tricks, fallacies, recreations compiled by Dr. Gerald P. Michon.
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A page of uncommon problems, most closely connected with number theory.
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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.
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A contest that asks to write all integers from 1 to 100 using only the digits 2,0,0,1 and arithmetic operations.
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Visual animations of famous curves.
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Explains Conway's audioactive decay that is generated by a particular kind of sequence. Includes illustrations and related resources.
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Creates a special kind of summation formula created by John Conway.
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Combines high school and college math topics into sports applications.
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A windows application that creates mathematically precise spirograph drawings; savable as images.
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Features original number recreations by the author, such as generalized perfect numbers, digital diversions, diophantine equations, didactic numbers, and number theory.
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A short description of mazes and how to create them. Definition of different mazetypes and their algorithms.
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A collection of mathematical quotations culled from many sources. You may conduct a keyword search through the quotation database.
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By Steven Dutch. Symmetry, Crystals, Polyhedra and Tilings; Pythagorean triplets and other things about sums of powers; Geometry Classics.
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Rough index to the fifteen books containing Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games articles from Scientific American.
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Teaching and recreational items in this personal collection.
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70 brain-teasers; a Primer on Cryptarithmetic; books and links to alphametics on the Web.
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Polyhedral dice and their properties.
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Links collected at CAMEL, the Canadian Mathematical Society website.
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Individual pages on different topics in Mathematics. Examples : group theory, dynamical systems theory, geometry or number theory.
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Profile and description of his mathematical games and puzzles.
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A guide to major motion pictures with scenes of real mathematics.
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A brief digression into how people perceive symmetrical patterns -- what makes them boring, interesting, or overly intricate
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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).
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At Mathematics Museum (Japan) you would be surprised how interesting mathematics is. You will find exhibition rooms produced by Japanese researchers and educators.
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An extensive list of web resources for recreational math.
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Fun math stuff, including computing pi, perfect numbers, Fibonacci numbers, the tesseract, a look into 4-dimensional space. Includes family photos and trivia information about the author.
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A magazine for students and teachers in universities, colleges and schools worldwide. Includes articles from various branches of this field, as well as regular features on education, math recreations, book and software reviews. Welcomes original student contributions and awards annual prizes for the best entries.
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Journal of the Archimedeans (Cambridge University Mathematics Society) with articles by members and readers.
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Includes a complete list of all possible Fair Dice, most of which are not cubes. Includes pictures.
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A weekly interactive project for algebra on the Internet. Challenging problems are posted and solutions appear on the Web.
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Only mathematical quotations.
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Explains how this system started, the basics of each numeral, and how they are used. Includes a quick converter.
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Learn some interesting facts about math.
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Rearrange rows, columns, and quadrants in a 4x4 array of 2-color squares to solve the puzzle and to make a variety of symmetric designs.
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An applet for making spirograph-like drawings; supports saving. Source available on request.
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Algorithmic music determined by mathematics and by the musical preferences of a human.
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Mathematics of paper folding; includes a bibliography of articles and journals, Combinatorial geometry syllabus, and a tutorial on geometric constructions. Photo gallery of completed modular, geometric, and tessellation models.
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