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Famous Curves Index  - Curves you've heard of and curves you haven't, from Astroid to the Witch of Agnesi.
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.
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.
CuriousMath - Include news, math tricks, methods, facts, trivia, mostly posted by users.
David Singmaster: List of Available Material - Teaching and recreational items in this personal collection.
Decimal to Hexadecimal Conversion - A table to convert any number from 1 to 255 to Hexadecimal.
EFF Cooperative Computing Awards - Between $100,000 and $250,000 will go to the first individual or group who discovers a new prime number above 10 million digits.
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.
Famous Curves - Visual animations of famous curves.
Fast Arithmetic Tips - Three categories: defensive - know to check an answer, offensive - fast mental calculations, and math magic.
Fibonacci numbers and the Pascal triangle - The relation between Fibonacci numbers and Pascal's triangle. English/German/Serbian.
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.
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.
MAT 007 I News - A newsletter edited by undergraduates of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Toronto. Includes some online copies.
Math Cats - A magic chalkboard takes you to a math art gallery and lots of interactive math activities, including: magic squares, conversions, seasonal surveys, symmetry, tessellations, geometric designs, games.
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.
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 Diversions - Mostly original diversions in mathematics and word play.
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 Lego Sculptures - Designed and built by Andrew Lipson. Images and LDraw files.
Mathematical Poetry - A Small Anthology - A fascinating selection of poems by various poets based on the seemingly incongruous aesthetic and theme of mathematics.
Mathematical Problems - Problem Solving - Mathematics Hots (Problems) by Bruno Kevius
Mathematical Quotation Server - Furman University Mathematical Quotation Server - random or searchable math quotes.
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.
Mathematics for Fun - Interactive math pages including java Kali and a page on the world's largest prime.
Mathematics in Art and Architecture - An interdisciplinary course on mathematics in art and architecture.
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.
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.
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