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- The **Fastest Rumic Maths (FRM) Method** is a mathematical technique developed by '''Yash Arora''' for efficiently constructing [[Magi == Mathematical Basis == ...4 KB (526 words) - 17:56, 10 February 2025
- ...e [[color]]s to create a 4 by 6 [[grid graph|grid]]. Such [[tessellation]] puzzles have multiple variants, which are determined by restrictions on how to arra ...Squares|thumb|All 24 MacMahon Squares, redrawn from Fig. 26 of ''New Mathematical Pastimes'' (MacMahon, 1921)]] ...9 KB (1,358 words) - 22:02, 14 January 2025
- {{Short description|Mathematical puzzle}} In [[recreational mathematics]], '''rope-burning puzzles''' are a class of [[mathematical puzzle]] in which one is given lengths of rope, [[Fuse (explosives)|fuse co ...11 KB (1,705 words) - 12:02, 25 February 2025
- {{Short description|Mathematical puzzle}} ...ess-date=}}</ref> '''measuring puzzles''', or '''Die Hard with a Vengeance puzzles''') are a class of [[puzzle]] involving a finite collection of [[Jug|water ...14 KB (1,999 words) - 11:42, 25 February 2025
- Mathematically equivalent puzzles to certain variations of the MToH have been known for some time. For exampl ...journal|last=Cutrofello|first=Tom|title=Tower of Hanoi and Other Recursive Puzzles|journal=Games|year=2010|issue=November 2010}}</ref> ...23 KB (3,966 words) - 21:57, 3 January 2024
- ...e]] was used as an introductory game in the book ''[[Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays]]''.<ref name=ww>{{citation | title = Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays ...7 KB (1,036 words) - 02:40, 14 June 2024
- An '''Infinity cube''' is a kind of mechanical puzzle toy with mathematical principles. Its shape is similar to a 2×2 [[Rubik's cube]]. It can be opene ...ankova, Tom Rike (eds), ''A Decade of the Berkeley Math Circle'', American Mathematical Society, 2015 {{ISBN|9780821849125}}.</ref> and [[isomorphic]] to the below ...3 KB (391 words) - 18:20, 16 February 2025
- ...aper ''Weekly Dispatch'' on 14 June 1903 and collected in ''The Canterbury Puzzles'' (1907). [[Martin Gardner]] calls it "Dudeney's best-known brain-teaser".{ | publisher = American Mathematical Society ...6 KB (902 words) - 17:19, 13 January 2024
- ...84 Problems to Sharpen the Young], John Hadley and David Singmaster, ''The Mathematical Gazette'', '''76''', #475 (March 1992), p. 109</ref> ...nder|first2=Martin|last2=Erickson|title=Alcuin's Sequence|journal=American Mathematical Monthly|volume=119|issue=2|year=2012|pages=115–121|doi=10.4169/amer.math.mo ...3 KB (512 words) - 15:17, 9 September 2024
- | image = Polyominoes Puzzles Patterns Problems and Packings book cover.png '''''Polyominoes: Puzzles, Patterns, Problems, and Packings''''' is a mathematics book on [[polyomino ...7 KB (983 words) - 22:02, 25 August 2024
- ...they can be simulated by software. As with the mechanical sequential move puzzles, there are records for solvers, although not yet the same degree of competi ...ngle piece but each has three stickers. The stickers in higher-dimensional puzzles will have a dimensionality greater than two. For instance, in the 4-cube, t ...27 KB (3,852 words) - 06:15, 31 July 2024
- {{About|the mathematical polygon|the game|dominoes}} ...|authorlink=Solomon W. Golomb |title=Polyominoes |title-link= Polyominoes: Puzzles, Patterns, Problems, and Packings |year=1994 |publisher=Princeton Universit ...4 KB (501 words) - 23:59, 20 January 2025
- {{Short description|Mathematical paradox and logic puzzle}} .... It was however already published in 1901 in the article ''Some postcard puzzles'' by Walter Dexter.'<ref name="Frederickson"/><ref name="Gardner">Martin Ga ...13 KB (1,968 words) - 12:43, 20 September 2024
- ...ed variant, and is still NP-complete. Many problems (for example games and puzzles) cannot represent non-planar graphs. Hence, Planar 3SAT provides a way to p === Logic puzzles === ...16 KB (2,403 words) - 22:39, 25 March 2024
- ...707§ion=english ''Curse of the crystal skulls and other vanishing area puzzles''] [[Category:Mathematical paradoxes]] ...4 KB (543 words) - 03:43, 9 December 2024
- ...primality testing and decimal expansions|journal=Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society|volume=91|issue=3|pages=405–413|arxiv=0802.3361|doi=10.1017/S144678 ...zzles.net/puzzles/puzz_017.htm|access-date=18 February 2011|work=The Prime Puzzles & Problems Connection}}</ref> ...5 KB (633 words) - 08:47, 7 June 2024
- {{Short description|Mathematical puzzle}} The '''17-animal inheritance puzzle''' is a [[mathematical puzzle]] involving unequal but [[fair item allocation|fair allocation]] of ...19 KB (2,510 words) - 19:07, 24 September 2024
- | title = Puzzles and polytope isomorphisms ...= Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenschaften [Fundamental Principles of Mathematical Sciences] ...5 KB (691 words) - 08:46, 15 October 2024
- | journal = [[The Mathematical Gazette]] ...ite book|title=Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Problem Solving: An Introduction to Mathematical Thinking|first1=Marilyn A.|last1=Reba|first2=Douglas R.|last2=Shier|publish ...6 KB (976 words) - 01:44, 26 February 2025
- ...n Ring Problem|url=http://www.maa.org/devlin/devlin_04_08.html|publisher=[[Mathematical Association of America]]|year=2008|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/2 ...khart's Lament|url=http://www.maa.org/devlin/devlin_05_08.html|publisher=[[Mathematical Association of America]]|year=2008|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/2 ...8 KB (1,181 words) - 09:25, 7 June 2024