Recreational mathematics is mathematics carried out for recreation (entertainment) rather than as a strictly research- and application-based professional...

The Journal of Recreational Mathematics was an American journal dedicated to recreational mathematics, started in 1968. It had generally been published...

Mathematical puzzles make up an integral part of recreational mathematics. They have specific rules, but they do not usually involve competition between...

indexing the records, such as all with "Boulder" as the city name. In recreational mathematics, many problems concern the properties of numbers under concatenation...

Dudeney and Martin Gardner have made many uses of tessellation in recreational mathematics. For example, Dudeney invented the hinged dissection, while Gardner...

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){\displaystyle P(A\vert...

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...

Pure mathematics is the study of mathematical concepts independently of any application outside mathematics. These concepts may originate in real-world...

This aspect of mathematical activity is emphasized in recreational mathematics. Mathematicians can find an aesthetic value to mathematics. Like beauty,...

best known for creating and sustaining interest in recreational mathematics—and by extension, mathematics in general—throughout the latter half of the 20th...