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
Origami Mathematics - Information on the mathematics of paper folding. - http://www.merrimack.edu/~thull/OrigamiMath.html
Eureka - The annual journal of the Archimedeans, the mathematical society of the University of Cambridge. It regularly contains articles on recreational mathematics. - http://www.archim.org.uk/eureka/
How To Manually Find A Square Root - The way to do find a square root without a calculator. - http://math.arizona.edu/~kerl/doc/square-root.html
Who Can Name the Bigger Number? - An essay by Scott Aaronson on the quest for ever-bigger numbers, from exponentials to Busy Beavers. - http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html
The Nine Digits Page - Puzzles and problems connected with numbers using the digits 1-9. - http://www.worldofnumbers.com/ninedig1.htm
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://math.cofc.edu/faculty/kasman/MATHFICT/
Critical Math - Articles and images on recreational math from fractals and magic squares to mathemorchids and Galois. - http://web.onetel.com/~amygdala/articles/scimaths/
Recmath - Includes pages on magic squares and polyomino patterns and contains related java applets. - http://www3.sympatico.ca/diharper/
Mathematical Lego Sculptures - Designed and built by Andrew Lipson. Images and LDraw files. - http://www.andrewlipson.com/mathlego.htm
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.simonsingh.net/
Mathematical Induction - A page of uncommon problems, most closely connected with number theory. - http://www.math.cl/induction.html
Stunning Friends with Math Magic - A collection of card tricks, number guessing games, paper and glue magic, and other math exercises. - http://www.cut-the-knot.com/arithmetic/rapid/magic.shtml
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. - http://mathforum.org/~judyann/2002/
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. - http://mathforum.org/~judyann/2001/
Math Magic By Computer - Interactive java puzzles and activities in different mathematical topics. - http://www.cut-the-knot.org/Curriculum/index.shtml#magic
CuriousMath - Include news, math tricks, methods, facts, trivia, mostly posted by users. - http://www.curiousmath.com/
Mathmos - Includes puzzles, jokes, quotations, poetry, and FAQs. - http://www.mathmos.net/
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. - http://www.mathematische-basteleien.de/
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
Fibonacci numbers and the Pascal triangle - The relation between Fibonacci numbers and Pascal's triangle. English/German/Serbian. - http://milan.milanovic.org/math/
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.btinternet.com/~se16/mhi/
Look and Say Sequence Generator - Creates a special kind of summation formula created by John Conway. - http://www.btinternet.com/~se16/js/looknsay.htm
Number Recreations by Shyam Sunder Gupta - Features interesting facts about different numbers. Includes favorite related links. - http://www.shyamsundergupta.com/
Spirocharts - A windows application that creates mathematically precise spirograph drawings; savable as images. - http://www.nehuenmultimedia.com.ar/html/spirograph.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. - http://www.skytopia.com/project/magnet/magnet.html
Maze Classification and Algorithms - A short description of mazes and how to create them. Definition of different mazetypes and their algorithms. - http://www.astrolog.org/labyrnth/algrithm.htm
Spirograph - A java applet for creating Spirograph images. - http://dogbomb.com/spi/
Mathematics in Art and Architecture - An interdisciplinary course on mathematics in art and architecture. - http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/teaching/math-art-arch.shtml
Mathematical Quotation Server - A collection of mathematical quotations culled from many sources. You may conduct a keyword search through the quotation database. - http://math.furman.edu/~mwoodard/mquot.html
Recreational Mathematics Topics - By Steven Dutch. Symmetry, Crystals, Polyhedra and Tilings; Pythagorean triplets and other things about sums of powers; Geometry Classics. - http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/RECMATH/recmath.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. - http://www.ucalgary.ca/library/SpecColl/strens.htm
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
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
Rubik's Cube Lecture Notes - Notes on the mathematics of the Rubik's cube. - http://web.usna.navy.mil/~wdj/rubik_nts.htm
Properties of Dice - Polyhedral dice and their properties. - http://hjem.get2net.dk/Klaudius/Dice.htm
Treasure Troves : Book List - Book list including titles, authors, publishers, prices, page count and some have links to Amazon.com. - http://www.treasure-troves.com/books/RecreationalMathematics.html
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/
Recreational Mathematics - Links collected at CAMEL, the Canadian Mathematical Society website. - http://camel.math.ca/Recreation/recreation.html
Mathematik - Individual pages on different topics in Mathematics. Examples : group theory, dynamical systems theory, geometry or number theory. - http://www.mathematik.com/
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
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
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.math.hmc.edu/funfacts/
On the Puzzles with Polyhedra and Numbers - This is an article on a set of didactical games edited by the Portuguese Mathematical Society (SPM). - http://gfm.cii.fc.ul.pt/Members/jr_poliedros-puzzles_en.pdf
Sir Roger Penrose - A article about him and his interests and contributions to recreational mathematics. - http://www.worldofescher.com/misc/penrose.html
Wade Edward Philpott Collection - A special collection at the University of Calgary Library. - http://www.ucalgary.ca/library/SpecColl/philpott.htm
Wade Edward Philpott - Profile and description of his mathematical games and puzzles. - http://www.gamepuzzles.com/wade.htm
Math in the Movies - A guide to major motion pictures with scenes of real mathematics. - http://world.std.com/~reinhold/mathmovies.html
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
The Aesthetics of Symmetry - A brief digression into how people perceive symmetrical patterns -- what makes them boring, interesting, or overly intricate - http://home.earthlink.net/~jdc24/symmetry.htm
Recreational Mathematics Forum - A forum for posting messages about math recreations. Hosted at Delphi. - http://forums.delphiforums.com/recmath/start/
Roman Numerals - 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. - http://www.novaroma.org/via_romana/numbers.html
Iamond - A page on polyiamond puzzles. Includes many pages on tessellation. - http://www.mathpuzzle.com/iamond.htm
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://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/companies/apt/ms.html
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). - http://www.alpertron.com.ar/CUADRO.HTM
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. - http://mathmuse.sci.ibaraki.ac.jp/indexE.html