Showing posts with label recreational math. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recreational math. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Math As Recreation


I'll soon be posting my own list of (math) book ideas from 2015 for the holiday season over at MathTango, but in case you were specifically interested in looking for some recreational math reading possibilities, worth checking out this older Quora thread:

https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-of-the-best-books-on-recreational-mathematics-and-or-mathematical-puzzles


Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Let the Fun Begin!


In this Centennial year for Martin Gardner a new math magazine is born…
For those spoiled by Gardner growing up, the semi-annual (FREE!) online magazine entitled simply "Recreational Mathematics," has been launched, as reported by Christian Perfect here:

http://aperiodical.com/2014/04/a-new-recreational-mathematics-magazine-from-the-ludus-association/

It will include, "games and puzzles, problems, mathmagic, mathematics and arts, history of mathematics, math and fun with algorithms, reviews and news," and the editors add that they "will try to bring in focus amazing mathematical ideas. We seek sophistication, imagination and awe."

The first issue (March 2014) containing six varied articles (from different authors) looks good, and is here:

http://rmm.ludus-opuscula.org/PDF_Files/RMM_Number1_March_2014_low.pdf