Recreational Mathematics Links

Compiled by Michael Gilleland, Merriam Park Software

Here are some of my favorite sites devoted to recreational and popular mathematics:

Alexander Bogomolny's Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles

Kevin Brown's MathPages

Chris Caldwell's Prime Pages

Patrick De Geest's World of Numbers

Keith Devlin's column Devlin's Angle

David Eppstein's pages: Erich Friedman's MathMagic

Brian Hayes' column Computing Science, in American Scientist

Nick Hobson's excellent site Nick's Mathematical Puzzles

IBM's monthly Ponder This puzzle

Mike Keith's World of Words & Numbers

Scott Kim's column The Boggler, in Discover

Clark Kimberling's pages on Triangle Centers

Ron Knott's pages on Fibonacci Numbers

Paul Kunkel's Mathematics Lessons

Mathematical jokes (beware, some are risque): Mathematical quotations, collected by: Mathematicians of the Day, by the School of Statistics and Mathematics, University of St. Andrews, Scotland. Changes daily, lists mathematicians who were born or died on each day, with quotations and posters.

Mathematics Enrichment Club

Mudd Math Fun Facts, by the Mathematics Department at Harvey Mudd College

John Allen Paulos' column Who's Counting?

Ed Pegg Jr.'s Mathpuzzle.com

Ivar Peterson's columns: Plus Magazine

Carlos Rivera's Prime Puzzles & Problems Connection

Shack's Math Problems, by Michael Shackleford. If you think you're smart, try these and be humbled.

Neil J.A. Sloane's On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

Southwest Missouri State University's Problem Corner, with problems at three levels of difficulty (high school, advanced, and challenge)

Alexandre Stefanov's list of free mathematical textbooks available on the Internet

Eric Weisstein's MathWorld