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	Mathematical Quotation Server - http://math.furman.edu/~mwoodard/mquot.html A collection of mathematical quotations culled from many sources. You may conduct a keyword search through the quotation database.
	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.
	Math Forum: Algebra Problem of the Week - http://mathforum.org/algpow/ View this week's algebra problem or those of previous weeks.
	Recreational Mathematics (David Eppstein) - http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/recmath.html An extensive list of web resources for recreational math.
	Math in the Movies - http://world.std.com/~reinhold/mathmovies.html A guide to major motion pictures with scenes of real mathematics.

	Math Magic By Computer - http://www.cut-the-knot.org/Curriculum/index.shtml#magic Interactive java puzzles and activities in different mathematical topics.
	Mathematical Diversions - http://members.aol.com/s6sj7gt/mikehome.htm Mostly original diversions in mathematics and word play.
	Famous Curves Index - http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Curves.html Curves you've heard of and curves you haven't, from Astroid to the Witch of Agnesi.
	Mathematical Quotation Server - http://math.furman.edu/~mwoodard/mqs/mquot.shtml Furman University Mathematical Quotation Server - random or searchable math quotes.
	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.

	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.
	CuriousMath - http://www.curiousmath.com/ Include news, math tricks, methods, facts, trivia, mostly posted by users.
	HAKMEM - 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.
	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.
	Roman Numerals - http://www.novaroma.org/via_romana/numbers.html Includes 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.

	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.
	Origami Mathematics - http://www.merrimack.edu/~thull/OrigamiMath.html Information on the mathematics of paper folding.
	Famous Curves - http://www.geocities.com/famouscurves/ Visual animations of famous curves.
	Number Recreations by Shyam Sunder Gupta - http://www.shyamsundergupta.com/ Features interesting facts about different numbers. Includes favorite related links.
	Sir Roger Penrose - http://www.worldofescher.com/misc/penrose.html An article about him and his interests and contributions to recreational mathematics.

	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.
	MAT 007 I News - http://www.math.toronto.edu/007/ A newsletter edited by undergraduates of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Toronto. Includes some online copies.
	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.
	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.
	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.

	Recreational and Educational Computing - http://members.aol.com/DrMWEcker/REC.html 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.
	Rubik's Cube Lecture Notes - http://web.usna.navy.mil/~wdj/rubik_nts.htm Notes on the mathematics of the Rubik's cube.
	Table of Numbers Problem - http://www.alpertron.com.ar/CUADRO.HTM 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).
	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.
	The Sound of Mathematics - http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/9349/ Algorithmic music determined by mathematics and by the musical preferences of a human. General MIDI files.

	Cryptarithms Online - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/2160/ 70 brain-teasers; a Primer on Cryptarithmetic; books and links to alphametics on the Web.
	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.
	Fun With Mathematics - http://www.geocities.com/hjsmithh/ Includes pages on the topics of primes, fibonacci numbers, PI computation, data encryption and links to calculator programs.
	Eric's Scientific Book List: Recreational Mathematics - http://www.ericweisstein.com/encyclopedias/books/RecreationalMathematics.html Book list from Eric Weisstein including titles, authors, publishers, prices, page count and some have links to Amazon.com.
	Mathematics in Art and Architecture - http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/teaching/math-art-arch.shtml An interdisciplinary course on mathematics in art and architecture.

	Mathematical Problems - Problem Solving - http://mathres.kevius.com/problem.html Mathematics Hots (Problems) by Bruno Kevius
	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.
	Gardner Index - http://www.ms.uky.edu/~lee/ma502/gardner5/gardner5.html Rough index to the fifteen books containing Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games articles from Scientific American.
	Mathematik - http://www.mathematik.com/ Individual pages on different topics in Mathematics. Examples : group theory, dynamical systems theory, geometry or number theory.
	Amazing Spiro - http://cgibin.erols.com/ziring/cgi-bin/spiro.pl/spiro.html An applet for making spirograph graphs. Includes options for size, color and shape. Allows saving of completed image.

	Fibonacci numbers and the Pascal triangle - http://milan.milanovic.org/math/ The relation between Fibonacci numbers and Pascal's triangle. English/German/Serbian.
	Mathematical Lego Sculptures - http://www.andrewlipson.com/mathlego.htm Designed and built by Andrew Lipson. Images and LDraw files.
	Narcissistic Numbers - http://www.geocities.com/~harveyh/narciss.htm Those that are representable, in some way, by mathematically manipulating the digits of the numbers themselves.
	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.
	Eureka - http://www.archim.org.uk/eureka/ The annual journal of the Archimedeans, the mathematical society of the University of Cambridge. It regularly contains articles on recreational mathematics.

	Mathmos - http://www.mathmos.net/ Includes puzzles, jokes, quotations, poetry, and FAQs.
	Wade Edward Philpott - http://www.gamepuzzles.com/wade.htm Profile and description of his mathematical games and puzzles.
	Properties of Dice - http://hjem.get2net.dk/Klaudius/Dice.htm Polyhedral dice and their properties.
	Mathematical Induction - http://www.math.cl/induction.html A page of uncommon problems, most closely connected with number theory.
	How To Manually Find A Square Root - http://math.arizona.edu/~kerl/doc/square-root.html The way to do find a square root without a calculator.

	Back to Square One - http://www.geocities.com/jaapsch/puzzles/square1.htm Includes description, solutions and other resources on this cube-like puzzle.
	Recreational Mathematics - http://camel.math.ca/Recreation/recreation.html Links collected at CAMEL, the Canadian Mathematical Society website.
	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.
	On the Puzzles with Polyhedra and Numbers - http://gfm.cii.fc.ul.pt/people/jrezende/jr_poliedros-puzzles_en.pdf This is an article on a set of didactical games edited by the Portuguese Mathematical Society (SPM).
	David Singmaster: List of Available Material - http://anduin.eldar.org/~problemi/singmast/material.html Teaching and recreational items in this personal collection.

	Mathematrix - http://www.adelphi.edu/~StemkosL/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.
	A Disproof of Pythagoras' Theorem? - http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/System/8956/problems/pyth.htm 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.
	Jlpe's Number Recreations Page - http://www.geocities.com/windmill96/numrecreations.html Features original number recreations by the author, such as generalized perfect numbers, digital diversions, diophantine equations, didactic numbers, and number theory.
	Spirocharts - http://www.nehuenmultimedia.com.ar/html/spirograph.html A windows application that creates mathematically precise spirograph drawings; savable as images.
	Sportlab - http://www.geocities.com/sportlab/ Combines high school and college math topics into sports applications.

	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?"
	Final Answers - http://home.att.net/~numericana/answer/ Numerous facts including formulas, magic tricks, fallacies, recreations compiled by Dr. Gerald P. Michon.
	Recmath - http://www3.sympatico.ca/diharper/ Includes pages on magic squares and polyomino patterns and contains related java applets.
	The Diamond 16 Puzzle - http://finitegeometry.org/sc/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 - http://www.ucalgary.ca/lib-old/SpecColl/strens.htm A special collection at the University of Calgary, including the archives of Martin Gardner. There is a searchable online index.

	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.
	The Nine Digits Page - http://www.worldofnumbers.com/ninedig1.htm Puzzles and problems connected with numbers using the digits 1-9.
	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.
	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.
	Iamond - http://www.mathpuzzle.com/iamond.htm A page on polyiamond puzzles. Includes many pages on tessellation.

	The Aesthetics of Symmetry - http://home.earthlink.net/~jdc24/symmetry.htm A brief digression into how people perceive symmetrical patterns -- what makes them boring, interesting, or overly intricate
	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.
	Look and Say Sequence Generator - http://www.btinternet.com/~se16/js/looknsay.htm Creates a special kind of summation formula created by John Conway.
	Recreational Mathematics Forum - http://forums.delphiforums.com/recmath/start/ A forum for posting messages about math recreations. Hosted at Delphi.
	Critical Math - http://www.gwywyr.com/articles/scimaths/ Articles and images on recreational math from fractals and magic squares to mathemorchids and Galois.

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