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Web Sites in Category Recreations
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Narcissistic Numbers - Those that are representable, in some way, by mathematically manipulating the digits of the numbers themselves.

Number Recreations by Shyam Sunder Gupta - Features interesting facts about different numbers. Includes favorite related links.

On the Puzzles with Polyhedra and Numbers - This is an article on a set of didactical games edited by the Portuguese Mathematical Society (SPM).

One Metaphor Fits All - Explains Conway's audioactive decay that is generated by a particular kind of sequence. Includes illustrations and related resources.

Origami Mathematics - Information on the mathematics of paper folding.

Properties of Dice - Polyhedral dice and their properties.

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 - Links collected at CAMEL, the Canadian Mathematical Society website.

Recreational Mathematics (David Eppstein) - An extensive list of web resources for recreational math.

Recreational Mathematics Forum - A forum for posting messages about math recreations. Hosted at Delphi.

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.

Rubik's Cube Lecture Notes - Notes on the mathematics of the Rubik's cube.

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).

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.

The Nine Digits Page - Puzzles and problems connected with numbers using the digits 1-9.

The Sound of Mathematics - Algorithmic music determined by mathematics and by the musical preferences of a human. General MIDI files.

Treasure Troves : Book List - Book list including titles, authors, publishers, prices, page count and some have links to Amazon.com.

Wade Edward Philpott - Profile and description of his mathematical games and puzzles.

Wade Edward Philpott Collection - A special collection at the University of Calgary Library.

Who Can Name the Bigger Number? - An essay by Scott Aaronson on the quest for ever-bigger numbers, from exponentials to Busy Beavers.


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