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Critical Math 
Articles and images on recreational math from fractals and magic squares to mathemorchids and Galois.
http://web.onetel.com/~amygdala/articles/scimaths/
CuriousMath 
Include news, math tricks, methods, facts, trivia, mostly posted by users.
http://www.curiousmath.com/
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/
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
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
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
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
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
Iamond 
A page on polyiamond puzzles. Includes many pages on tessellation.
http://www.mathpuzzle.com/iamond.htm
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/
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 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 Magic By Computer 
Interactive java puzzles and activities in different mathematical topics.
http://www.cut-the-knot.org/Curriculum/index.shtml#magic
Math in the Movies 
A guide to major motion pictures with scenes of real mathematics.
http://world.std.com/~reinhold/mathmovies.html
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/
Mathematical Induction 
A page of uncommon problems, most closely connected with number theory.
http://www.math.cl/induction.html
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
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
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
Mathematik 
Individual pages on different topics in Mathematics. Examples : group theory, dynamical systems theory, geometry or number theory.
http://www.mathematik.com/
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/
Mathmos 
Includes puzzles, jokes, quotations, poetry, and FAQs.
http://www.mathmos.net/
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
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/
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/
Origami Mathematics 
Information on the mathematics of paper folding.
http://www.merrimack.edu/~thull/OrigamiMath.html
Properties of Dice 
Polyhedral dice and their properties.
http://hjem.get2net.dk/Klaudius/Dice.htm
Recmath 
Includes pages on magic squares and polyomino patterns and contains related java applets.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/diharper/
Recreational Mathematics 
Links collected at CAMEL, the Canadian Mathematical Society website.
http://camel.math.ca/Recreation/recreation.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
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
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/
Sir Roger Penrose 
A article about him and his interests and contributions to recreational mathematics.
http://www.worldofescher.com/misc/penrose.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
Spirocharts 
A windows application that creates mathematically precise spirograph drawings; savable as images.
http://www.nehuenmultimedia.com.ar/html/spirograph.html
Spirograph 
A java applet for creating Spirograph images.
http://dogbomb.com/spi/
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
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
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
The Nine Digits Page 
Puzzles and problems connected with numbers using the digits 1-9.
http://www.worldofnumbers.com/ninedig1.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
Wade Edward Philpott 
Profile and description of his mathematical games and puzzles.
http://www.gamepuzzles.com/wade.htm
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
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