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A Mathematician's Aesthetics
http://m759.freeservers.com/PHaesthetics.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.

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.

Back to Square One
http://www.geocities.com/jaapsch/puzzles/square1.htm
Includes description, solutions and other resources on this cube-like puzzle.

Club Infinity
http://www.math.yorku.ca/infinity/math/
York University's Undergraduate Math Club with informations on math competitions and a problem solving forum.

Critical Math
http://www.geocities.com/aladgyma/articles/scimaths/maths.htm
Articles and images on recreational math from fractals and magic squares to mathemorchids and Galois.

Cryptarithms Online
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/2160
70 brain-teasers; a Primer on Cryptarithmetic; books and links to alphametics on the Web.

CuriousMath
http://www.curiousmath.com/
Include news, math tricks, methods, facts, trivia, mostly posted by users.

David Singmaster: List of Available Material
http://anduin.eldar.org/~problemi/singmast/material.html
Teaching and recreational items in this personal collection.

Eureka
http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/archim/eureka/
The annual journal of the Archimedeans, the mathematical society of the University of Cambridge. It regularly contains articles on recreational mathematics.

Fair Dice
http://www.mathpuzzle.com/Fairdice.htm
Contains a complete list of all possible Fair Dice, most of which are not cubes. Includes pictures.

Famous Curves
http://www.geocities.com/famouscurves/
Visual animations of famous curves.

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.

Fast Arithmetic Tips
http://www.cut-the-knot.com/arithmetic/rapid/index.shtml
Three categories: defensive - know to check an answer, offensive - fast mental calculations, and math magic.

Fibonacci numbers and the Pascal triangle
http://milan.milanovic.org/math/
The relation between Fibonacci numbers and Pascal's triangle. English/German/Serbian.

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.

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.

Gathering for Gardner
http://www.g4g4.com/
Contains math, puzzle, geometry, illusions, mazes, links, articles and problems.

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?"

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.

Iamond
http://www.mathpuzzle.com/iamond.htm
A page on polyiamond puzzles. Includes many pages on tessellation.

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.

Look and Say Sequence Generator
http://www.btinternet.com/~se16/js/looknsay.htm
Creates a special kind of summation formula created by John Conway.

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.

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 Cats
http://www.mathcats.com/
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.

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