A Primer on Cryptarithmetic
Instructions, examples, references and links. |
Alien Tiles
Object of puzzle is to try to get color pieces to create certain patterns in cube. |
Alphametic Puzzles
Nmerous puzzles, links, puzzle solver, and a generator. |
Alphametics and Cryptarithms
Cryptarithms are puzzles in which letters or symbols are substituted for the digits in an arithmetical calculation. If a cryptarithm utilizes letters in place of the digits, and these letters form sensible words or phrases, the puzzle is termed an al |
Alphametics Page
Compiled by Mike Keith. Examples of various genres. |
Back to Square One
Includes description, solutions and other resources on this cube-like puzzle. |
Books and Articles on Mathematical Recreations
Information on list includes titles, authors, publishers and paperback or hardcover. |
Brain Teasers from The Puzzling World of Barry R. Clarke
Original free brain teasers, recreational mathematics articles and puzzles forum from the Daily Telegraph (UK) compiler. |
Clever Games for Clever People
Games that interest John Conway including Rim and Traffic Jam. |
Contest Center Cryptarithms
Examples of cryptarithms, with prize competitions for subscribers. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden section in Nature
Puzzles and things to do, for schools, teachers, colleges up to university level students, or just for recreation. |
Fun With Mathematics
Includes pages on the topics of primes, fibonacci numbers, PI computation, data encryption and links to calculator programs. |
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?" |
Group Games
Animations that develop the theory behind such puzzles as the Rubik cube. |
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. |
Journal of Recreational Mathematics
A journal devoted to the lighter side of mathematics. Recent abstracts are available free, articles may be purchased. |
Logic Puzzles
Collection of original numerical-logic puzzles. Many are long and difficult, involve sorting and comparing long lists and are intended to be solved using a good spreadsheet program. |
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 Information
A recreational mathematical newsletter edited by undergraduates of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Toronto and printed bioccasionally (twice annually). |
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 Doodle
Sells t-shirts and mugs with mathematical proofs printed on them including the Divine Section and the volume of a sphere. |
Math in the Movies
A guide to major motion pictures with scenes of real mathematics. |
Mathematical Diversions
Mostly original diversions in mathematics and word play. |
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 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. |
Mathematrix
Mathematrix is a web site devoted to exploring mathematical recreations - the more entertaining (and generally lesser known) areas of mathematics. This site can be enjoyed by anyone, from individuals with little or no math background to professors of the |
MathPro Online: Online Reference to Mathematical Problems
database currently contains 20,945 math problems from 38 journals and 21 contests |
Mathpuzzle.com
Celebrates math puzzles and Mathematical Recreations. |
Maths Quiz 2000
A contest to be played on the internet on 17 October as part of the World Mathematics Year. |
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. |
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). |
Pocket Calculator
Online calculator, written in Java. Includes Square root button and number memory. Source code can be downloaded. |
Properties of Dice
Polyhedral dice and their properties. |
Puzzle Fun
On-line newsletter edited by Rodolfo Kurchan about polyominoes and other puzzles. |
REC: Recreational and Educational Computing
A newsletter/magazine with programs, including optional supplemental PC disk. All back issues are available. Topics include puzzles & teasers, BASIC programming, math, letters, graphics, fractals, challenges, recreation, reviews, word-play, humor, |
Recmath
Includes pages on magic squares and polyomino patterns and contains related java applets. |
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. |
Rite Item
Geometrical shareware software. Anyangle (Windows/DOS) finds answers to problems involving triangles. Partydot creates patterns. |
Roman Numerals
Contains a introduction to Roman numerals including a translation of the digits used and a convertor which can convert decimal to Roman numerals and vice versa. |
Scott Kim
Puzzles for web, computers, and print; ambigrams. |
Sequence Puzzles and Problems
With links to related sites. Compiled by Torsten Sillke. |
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 app 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. |
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 we perceive symmetrical patterns -- what makes them boring, interesting, or overly intricate |
The Chaos Hypertextbook
The theory behind the sumptuous images and technical jargon of chaos, fractals, and nonlinear dynamics. Simple experiments for programmable calculators, instructions for drawing fractal images, the meanings of dimension, and more. |
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 rec.puzzles Archive
This newsgroup archive is a list of puzzles, categorized by subject area. Each puzzle includes a solution, compiled from various sources, which is supposed to be definitive. |
The Snarking of the Hunt
Visitors are invited to analyse the verses to discover mathematical puzzles and riddles. They are invited to offer solutions. |
Treasure Troves : Book List
Book list including titles, authors, publishers, prices, page count and some have links to Amazon.com. |
U of T Mathematics Network
Includes interactive games, problems and puzzles including the Monty Hall Problem and the Tower of Hanoi and questions pages with answers and discussion. |
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. |
World of Numbers
Contains a collection of randomly gathered numbers, curios, puzzles, palindromes and primes. |
