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.
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.
Andrew Lipson's Mathematical Lego Sculptures Using some computer assistance for guidance, Andrew created nine sculptures including mobius strips, trefoil and figure eight knots, a klein bottle, and cross-caps.
Back to Square One Includes description, solutions and other resources on this cube-like puzzle.
Club Infinity York University's Undergraduate Math Club with informations on math competitions and a problem solving forum.
Critical Math Articles and images on recreational math from fractals and magic squares to mathemorchids and Galois.
Cryptarithms Online 70 brain-teasers; a Primer on Cryptarithmetic; books and links to alphametics on the Web.
Curious Math Tricks and rules for quickly calculating certain types of problems. Also has some entertaining trivia and facts that are nice to slip into casual conversation.
CuriousMath Include news, math tricks, methods, facts, trivia, mostly posted by users.
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.
Eureka The annual journal of the Archimedeans, the mathematical society of the University of Cambridge. It regularly contains articles on recreational mathematics.
Fair Dice Contains a complete list of all possible Fair Dice, most of which are not cubes. Includes pictures.
Fibonacijevi Brojevi i Paskalov Trougao Relacije izmedju Paskalovog trougla i Fibonacijevih i Lukasovih brojeva. Fibonacijevi brojevi i zlatni presek. Paskalov trougao drugog reda.
Fun With Mathematics Includes pages on the topics of primes, fibonacci numbers, PI computation, data encryption and links to calculator programs.
Gardner Index Rough index to the fifteen books containing Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games articles from Scientific American.
Gathering for Gardner Contains math, puzzle, geometry, illusions, mazes, links, articles and problems.
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?"
HAKMEM A collection of problems from MIT. Work reported herein was conducted at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology research program.
Iamond A page on polyiamond puzzles. Includes many pages on tessellation.
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.
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 A weekly interactive project for algebra on the Internet. Challenging problems are posted and solutions appear on the Web.
Math in the Movies A guide to major motion pictures with scenes of real mathematics.
Math Magic By Computer Interactive java puzzles and activities in different mathematical topics.
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.
Mathematical Induction A page of uncommon problems, most closely connected with number theory.
Mathematical Poetry - A Small Anthology A fascinating selection of poems by various poets based on the seemingly incongruous aesthetic and theme of mathematics.
Mathematical Quotation Server A collection of mathematical quotations culled from many sources. You may conduct a keyword search through the quotation database.
Mathematical Spectrum 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.
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.
Mathematics for Fun Interactive math pages including java Kali and a page on the world's largest prime.
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.
Mathematische Basteleien Eine Sammlung von mathematischen Basteleien zu unterschiedlichen geometrischen Themen.
Mathematische Basteleien Eine Sammlung von mathematischen Basteleien zu unterschiedlichen geometrischen Themen.
Mathematrix Devoted to exploring the more entertaining (and generally lesser known) areas of mathematics. Can be enjoyed by anyone, from individuals with little or no math background to professors of the subject.
Mathmos Includes puzzles, jokes, quotations, poetry, and FAQs.
Maze Classification and Algorithms A short description of mazes and how to create them. Definition of different mazetypes and their algorithms.
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.
Narcissistic Numbers Those that are representable, in some way, by mathematically manipulating the digits of the numbers themselves.
One Metaphor Fits All Explains Conway's audioactive decay that is generated by a particular kind of sequence. Includes illustrations and related resources.
Recmath Includes pages on magic squares and polyomino patterns and contains related java applets.
Recreational and Educational Computing A newsletter with programs, including optional supplemental PC disk. All back issues are available. Topics include puzzles and teasers, BASIC programming, letters, graphics, fractals, challenges, recreation, reviews, word-play, humor, tips, solutions, and Mathemagical Black Holes.
Recreational Mathematics Topics By Steven Dutch. Symmetry, Crystals, Polyhedra and Tilings; Pythagorean triplets and other things about sums of powers; Geometry Classics.
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.
Sir Roger Penrose A article about him and his interests and contributions to recreational mathematics.
Skytopia - Super Magnet A colourful world built entirely using mathematical atoms and molecules. Pictures and animations demonstrate structures colliding and interacting. Animated GIF demonstrations.
Spirocharts A windows application that creates mathematically precise spirograph drawings; savable as images.
Spirograph A java applet for creating Spirograph images.
Sportlab Combines high school and college math topics into sports applications.
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).
The Aesthetics of Symmetry A brief digression into how people perceive symmetrical patterns -- what makes them boring, interesting, or overly intricate
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).
