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Mathematical Quotation Server - http://math.furman.edu/~mwoodard/mqs/mquot.shtml
A collection of mathematical quotations culled from many sources. You may conduct a keyword search through the quotation database. |
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Mudd Math Fun Facts - http://www.math.hmc.edu/funfacts/
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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SimonSingh.net - http://www.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. |
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Math in the Movies - http://world.std.com/~reinhold/mathmovies.html
A guide to major motion pictures with scenes of real mathematics. |
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Mathematical Fiction - http://math.cofc.edu/faculty/kasman/MATHFICT/
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. |
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Mathematics Museum (Japan) - http://mathmuse.sci.ibaraki.ac.jp/indexE.html
At Mathematics Museum (Japan) you would be surprised how interesting mathematics is. You will find exhibition rooms produced by Japanese researchers and educators. |
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Recreational Mathematics (David Eppstein) - http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/recmath.html
An extensive list of web resources for recreational math. |
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CuriousMath - http://www.curiousmath.com/
Include news, math tricks, methods, facts, trivia, mostly posted by users. |
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http://www.inwap.com/pdp10/hbaker/hakmem/hakmem.html - http://www.inwap.com/pdp10/hbaker/hakmem/hakmem.html
A collection of problems from MIT. Work reported herein was conducted at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology research program. |
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Math Forum: Algebra Problem of the Week - http://mathforum.org/algpow/
View this week's algebra problem or those of previous weeks. |
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Who Can Name the Bigger Number? - http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html
An essay by Scott Aaronson on the quest for ever-bigger numbers, from exponentials to Busy Beavers. |
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Math Magic By Computer - http://www.cut-the-knot.org/Curriculum/index.shtml#magic
Interactive java puzzles and activities in different mathematical topics. |
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MAA Library List in Recreational Mathematics - http://www.maa.org/BLL/recmath.htm
Book list split into categories. Includes title, author, publisher and date information about each book. |
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Sir Roger Penrose - http://www.worldofescher.com/misc/penrose.html
An article about him and his interests and contributions to recreational mathematics. |
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Mathematrix - http://home.adelphi.edu/~stemkoski/mathematrix/
Have fun with geometric shapes, fractals, math games, art, humor, quotes, and important constants. |
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Maze Classification and Algorithms - http://www.astrolog.org/labyrnth/algrithm.htm
A short description of mazes and how to create them. Definition of different mazetypes and their algorithms. |
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Mathematische Basteleien - http://www.mathematische-basteleien.de/
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. |
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Mathematical Spectrum - http://www.apt.group.shef.ac.uk/ms.html
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. |
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Recreational Mathematics Topics - http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/RECMATH/recmath.htm
By Steven Dutch. Symmetry, Crystals, Polyhedra and Tilings; Pythagorean triplets and other things about sums of powers; Geometry Classics. |
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Fair Dice - http://www.mathpuzzle.com/Fairdice.htm
Includes a complete list of all possible Fair Dice, most of which are not cubes. Includes pictures. |
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Mathematical Induction - http://www.math.cl/induction.html
A page of uncommon problems, most closely connected with number theory. |
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Mathematical Lego Sculptures - http://www.andrewlipson.com/mathlego.htm
Designed and built by Andrew Lipson. Images and LDraw files. |
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Math Forum: 2002 Mathematics Game - http://mathforum.org/~judyann/2002/
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. |
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Math Forum: 2001 Mathematics Game - http://mathforum.org/~judyann/2001/
A contest that asks to write all integers from 1 to 100 using only the digits 2,0,0,1 and arithmetic operations. |
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Fast Arithmetic Tips - http://www.cut-the-knot.org/arithmetic/rapid/
Three categories: defensive - know to check an answer, offensive - fast mental calculations, and math magic. |
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Geometric Packing Problems - http://www.york.cuny.edu/~malk/tidbits/tidbit-geometric-packing.html
By Joseph Malkevitch: "Given one shape X how and when can one pack identical copies of this shape into another shape Y?" |
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Stunning Friends with Math Magic - http://www.cut-the-knot.org/arithmetic/rapid/magic.shtml
A collection of card tricks, number guessing games, paper and glue magic, and other math exercises. |
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One Metaphor Fits All - http://www.btinternet.com/~se16/mhi/
Explains Conway's audioactive decay that is generated by a particular kind of sequence. Includes illustrations and related resources. |
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Skytopia - Super Magnet - http://www.skytopia.com/project/magnet/magnet.html
A colourful world built entirely using mathematical atoms and molecules. Pictures and animations demonstrate structures colliding and interacting. Animated GIF demonstrations. |
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A Mathematician's Aesthetics - http://finitegeometry.org/sc/ph/aesthetics.html
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. |