• Recreational mathematics is mathematics carried out for recreation (entertainment) rather than as a strictly research- and application-based professional...
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  • The Journal of Recreational Mathematics was an American journal dedicated to recreational mathematics, started in 1968. It had generally been published...
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  • Mathematical puzzles make up an integral part of recreational mathematics. They have specific rules, but they do not usually involve competition between...
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    Dudeney and Martin Gardner have made many uses of tessellation in recreational mathematics. For example, Dudeney invented the hinged dissection, while Gardner...
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  • indexing the records, such as all with "Boulder" as the city name. In recreational mathematics, many problems concern the properties of numbers under concatenation...
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  • Von Neumann's elephant (category Recreational mathematics)
    Von Neumann's elephant is a problem in recreational mathematics, consisting of constructing a planar curve in the shape of an elephant from only four fixed...
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  • entrenched that anything else makes little sense. Bayes' theorem is stated mathematically as the following equation: P ( A | B ) = P ( B | A ) P ( A ) P ( B )...
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  • statistical or mathematical aspects.[citation needed] Some mathematical games are of deep interest in the field of recreational mathematics.[verification...
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    Pure mathematics is the study of mathematical concepts independently of any application outside mathematics. These concepts may originate in real-world...
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  • This aspect of mathematical activity is emphasized in recreational mathematics. Mathematicians can find an aesthetic value to mathematics. Like beauty,...
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    Martin Gardner (category Recreational mathematicians)
    best known for creating and sustaining interest in recreational mathematics—and by extension, mathematics in general—throughout the latter half of the 20th...
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  • families in bases 28 to 50 J. Shallit, Minimal primes, Journal of Recreational Mathematics, 30:2, pp. 113–117, 1999-2000. PRP records, search by form 8*13^n+183...
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    Sudoku code Lin, Keh Ying (2004), "Number of Sudokus", Journal of Recreational Mathematics, 33 (2): 120–24. "Symmetrical 17 Clue Puzzle" Symmetrical 17 Clue...
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    John Horton Conway (category Recreational mathematicians)
    coding theory. He also made contributions to many branches of recreational mathematics, most notably the invention of the cellular automaton called the...
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    get the right answer." Recreational mathematics: mathematical problems that are fun can motivate students to learn mathematics and can increase their...
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  • D. R. Kaprekar (category Recreational mathematicians)
    schoolteacher, he published extensively and became well known in recreational mathematics circles. Kaprekar received his secondary school education in Thane...
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    Recreation (redirect from Recreational)
    difficult to separate education from recreation as in the case of recreational mathematics. Recreation has many health benefits, and, accordingly, Therapeutic...
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    Matt Parker (category Recreational mathematicians)
    Matthew Thomas Parker (born 22 December 1980): 20:45  is an Australian recreational mathematician, author, comedian, YouTube personality and science communicator...
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    Lewis Carroll (category Recreational mathematicians)
    discipline of mathematics, Dodgson worked primarily in the fields of geometry, linear and matrix algebra, mathematical logic, and recreational mathematics, producing...
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  • OEIS). Palindromic numbers receive most attention in the realm of recreational mathematics. A typical problem asks for numbers that possess a certain property...
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  • Through Recreational Mathematics is a textbook in mathematics on problem solving techniques and their application to problems in recreational mathematics, intended...
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    (1994). "The Utility of Recreational Mathematics". In Guy, Richard K.; Woodrow, Robert E. (eds.). The Lighter Side of Mathematics: Proceedings of the Eugène...
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    Hooper's paradox (category Recreational mathematics)
    edition as well. Chessboard paradox Missing square puzzle Martin Gardner: Mathematics, Magic and Mystery. Courier (Dover), 1956, ISBN 9780486203355, S. 129–155...
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    Sangaku (category Recreational mathematics)
    Japanese theorem for concyclic quadrilaterals Problem of Apollonius Recreational mathematics Seki Takakazu Holly, Jan E.; Krumm, David (2020-07-25). "Morikawa's...
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  • Recreational Mathematics, by Martin Gardner preserved at the Internet Archive A subject index for the fifteen books of Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games...
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    17-animal inheritance puzzle (category Mathematical puzzles)
    calculation than a problem with a clear mathematical solution. Beyond recreational mathematics and mathematics education, the story has been repeated as...
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    Rope-burning puzzle (category Recreational mathematics)
    In recreational mathematics, rope-burning puzzles are a class of mathematical puzzle in which one is given lengths of rope, fuse cord, or shoelace that...
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  • of recreational linguistics, an activity that encompasses a wide variety of word games and wordplay. The term is analogous to the term "recreational mathematics"...
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  • high-order mathematical calculations. This software has played an important role in the field of mathematics. Open-source software in mathematics has become...
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  • Missing dollar riddle (category Recreational mathematics)
    Professor David Singmaster's Chronology of Recreational Mathematics suggests these type of mathematical misdirection puzzles descended from a problem...
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