- Critical Math
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Articles and images on recreational math from fractals and magic squares to mathemorchids and Galois.
http://web.onetel.com/~amygdala/articles/scimaths/
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- 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://m759.freeservers.com/PHaesthetics.html
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- 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.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/System/8956/problems/pyth.htm
(Added: Thu Mar 30 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- Back to Square One
Includes description, solutions and other resources on this cube-like puzzle.
http://www.geocities.com/jaapsch/puzzles/square1.htm
(Added: Thu Apr 06 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- Cryptarithms Online
70 brain-teasers; a Primer on Cryptarithmetic; books and links to alphametics on the Web.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/2160/
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- CuriousMath
Include news, math tricks, methods, facts, trivia, mostly posted by users.
http://www.curiousmath.com/
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- David Singmaster: List of Available Material
Teaching and recreational items in this personal collection.
http://anduin.eldar.org/~problemi/singmast/material.html
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- Diamond 16 Puzzle
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.
http://m759.freeservers.com/puzzle.html
(Added: Sat Apr 01 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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- Eureka
The annual journal of the Archimedeans, the mathematical society of the University of Cambridge. It regularly contains articles on recreational mathematics.
http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/archim/eureka/
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- Fair Dice
Contains a complete list of all possible Fair Dice, most of which are not cubes. Includes pictures.
http://www.mathpuzzle.com/Fairdice.htm
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- Famous Curves
Visual animations of famous curves.
http://www.geocities.com/famouscurves/
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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
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- Fast Arithmetic Tips
Three categories: defensive - know to check an answer, offensive - fast mental calculations, and math magic.
http://www.cut-the-knot.com/arithmetic/rapid/index.shtml
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- Fibonacci numbers and the Pascal triangle
The relation between Fibonacci numbers and Pascal's triangle. English/German/Serbian.
http://milan.milanovic.org/math/
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- Final Answers
Numerous facts including formulas, magic tricks, fallacies, recreations compiled by Dr. Gerald P. Michon.
http://home.att.net/~numericana/answer/
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- Fun With Mathematics
Includes pages on the topics of primes, fibonacci numbers, PI computation, data encryption and links to calculator programs.
http://www.geocities.com/hjsmithh/
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- 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
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- Gathering for Gardner
Contains math, puzzle, geometry, illusions, mazes, links, articles and problems.
http://www.g4g4.com/
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- 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
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- 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
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- Iamond
A page on polyiamond puzzles. Includes many pages on tessellation.
http://www.mathpuzzle.com/iamond.htm
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- 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.geocities.com/windmill96/numrecreations.html
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- Look and Say Sequence Generator
Creates a special kind of summation formula created by John Conway.
http://www.btinternet.com/~se16/js/looknsay.htm
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- 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
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- 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/
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