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{{Short description|British recreational mathematician (1893–1977)}} ...893–1977) was a [[British people|British]] [[wordplay]] and [[recreational mathematics]] expert.<ref>A. Ross Eckler: ''Leigh Mercer, Palindromist.'' In: ''Word Wa ...

{{Short description|Problem in recreational mathematics}} ...rmiNeumannElephant.gif|thumb|Fermi-von Neumann elephant]]In [[recreational mathematics]], '''von Neumann's elephant''' is a problem consisting of constructing a p ...

...omon Golomb]], and is "universally regarded as a classic in [[recreational mathematics]]".{{r|martin}} ...ation of America]] has strongly recommended its inclusion in undergraduate mathematics libraries.{{r|bll}} ...

{{short description|Recreational geodesics problem}} '''The spider and the fly problem''' is a [[recreational mathematics]] problem with an unintuitive solution, asking for a shortest path or [[geo ...

In recreational [[mathematics]], '''arithmetic billiards''' provide a geometrical method to determine the ...or2=Joe Reguengo De Sousa |author3=Sebastiano Tronto |journal=Recreational Mathematics Magazine |title=Arithmetic billiards|date=2022 |volume=9 |issue=16 |pages=4 ...

...er= The Mythic Society, Bangalore |pages=36–48 |chapter=The Development of Mathematics in Ancient India: The Role of Brahmagupta |isbn=}}</ref> ...last1=Roger B Nelsen |title=Almost Equilateral Heronian Triangles |journal=Mathematics Magazine |date=2020 |volume=93 |issue=5 |pages=378–379|doi=10.1080/0025570X ...

In [[recreational mathematics]], '''rope-burning puzzles''' are a class of [[mathematical puzzle]] in whi ...ability,{{r|mkg}} and have been suggested as an activity for middle school mathematics students.{{r|brumbaugh}} ...

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*[[Martin Gardner]]: ''Mathematics, Magic and Mystery''. Courier (Dover), 1956, {{ISBN|9780486203355}}, S. 129 [[Category:Elementary mathematics]] ...

{{Draft topics|computing|mathematics}} | fields = Recreational Mathematics, Number Theory ...

...e_herman_lugo.pdf|title=Open Source Resources for Teaching and Research in Mathematics|author=Russell Herman|author2=Gabriel Lugo|publisher=University of North Ca ...]] [[Variable (mathematics)|variables]]. When an [[arbitrary]] [[Function (mathematics)|function]] does not have a closed form as its solution, there would not be ...

| image_caption = In an <math>8\times 8</math> queen's [[graph (discrete mathematics)|graph]], each square of the chessboard above is a [[vertex (graph theory)| In mathematics, a '''queen's graph''' is an [[undirected graph]] that represents all legal ...

'''Circle packing in a square''' is a [[packing problem]] in [[recreational mathematics]], where the aim is to pack {{mvar|n}} [[unit circle]]s into the smallest p ...ctangles that enclose congruent non-overlapping circles | journal=Discrete Mathematics | publisher=Elsevier BV | volume=309 | issue=8 | year=2009 | issn=0012-365X ...

...ww.gotham-corp.com/sources.htm#_Toc69534169 |title=Sources in recreational mathematics: an annotated bibliography. 8th preliminary edition |authorlink=David Singm |journal = Mathematics Magazine ...

...]]s, [[symmetry]], and [[algebraic curve]]s. According to the historian of mathematics Michael Friedman, it became "one of the main engines of the popularization ...other [[arithmetic series]], [[geometric series]], and [[Harmonic series (mathematics)|harmonic series]].{{r|willson}} ...

...pter 23]) </ref><ref name="Foster"> Colin Foster: "Slippery Slopes". In: ''Mathematics in School'', vol. 34, no. 3 (May, 2005), pp. 33–34 ([https://www.jstor.org/ ...r Dexter.'<ref name="Frederickson"/><ref name="Gardner">Martin Gardner: ''Mathematics, Magic and Mystery''. Courier (Dover), 1956, {{ISBN|9780486203355}}, pp. 12 ...

...proportion among a number of beneficiaries. It is a common example of an [[Mathematics of apportionment|apportionment problem]]. ...ar mathematical solution.{{r|sesiano}} Beyond recreational mathematics and mathematics education, the story has been repeated as a [[parable]] with varied metapho ...

...of “Proportion of people who have participated in meetings of cultural or recreational associations” and vice versa). Similarly, the components of a composite ind Given the [[Matrix (mathematics)|matrix]] <math>Y=y_{ij}</math> with ''n'' rows (statistical units) and ''m ...

...est.org/28049/new_page_5.htm "Alphamagic Squares", thinkquest.org:Magic of Mathematics]</ref> Sallows, already the author of original work in this area,<ref>[htt ...new dimension"], by Alex Bellos, ''[[The Observer]]'', April 3, 2011</ref> Mathematics writer [[Alex Bellos]] said, "To come up with this after thousands of years ...