Book:Books/Recreational
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The following books covered on $\mathsf{Pr} \infty \mathsf{fWiki}$ discuss recreational mathematics.
For a comprehensive list of books referenced on $\mathsf{Pr} \infty \mathsf{fWiki}$ (and more), see Books.
Books
- c. 1500: Fra Luca Pacioli: De Viribus Quantitatis
- 1612: Claude-Gaspar Bachet: Problèmes Plaisans et Delectables qui se font par les Nombres ("Pleasant and Delectable Problems that are done by Numbers")
- 1624: H. van Etten: Récréations Mathématiques
- 1633: Henry van Etten: Mathematicall Recreations (translated by William Oughtred from Récréations Mathématiques)
- 1694: Jacques Ozanam: Récréations Mathématiques et Physiques (2 vols)
- 1774: W. Hooper: Rational Recreations (4 Volumes)
- 1782-3: W. Hooper: Rational Recreations (2nd ed.) (4 Volumes)
- 1892: W.W. Rouse Ball: Mathematical Recreations and Essays
- 1892: W.W. Rouse Ball: Mathematical Recreations and Essays (2nd ed.)
- 1896: W.W. Rouse Ball: Mathematical Recreations and Essays (3rd ed.)
- 1905: W.W. Rouse Ball: Mathematical Recreations and Essays (4th ed.)
- 1911: W.W. Rouse Ball: Mathematical Recreations and Essays (5th ed.)
- 1914: W.W. Rouse Ball: Mathematical Recreations and Essays (6th ed.)
- 1917: W.W. Rouse Ball: Mathematical Recreations and Essays (7th ed.)
- 1919: W.W. Rouse Ball: Mathematical Recreations and Essays (8th ed.)
- 1920: W.W. Rouse Ball: Mathematical Recreations and Essays (9th ed.)
- 1922: W.W. Rouse Ball: Mathematical Recreations and Essays (10th ed.)
- 1939: W.W. Rouse Ball and H.S.M. Coxeter: Mathematical Recreations and Essays (11th ed.)
- 1974: W.W. Rouse Ball and H.S.M. Coxeter: Mathematical Recreations and Essays (12th ed.)
- 1914: Sam Loyd: Cyclopedia of Puzzles
- 1917: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Amusements in Mathematics
- 1926: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Modern Puzzles
- 1932: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Puzzles and Curious Problems
- 1944: Eugene P. Northrop: Riddles in Mathematics
- 1949: Malba Tahan: O Homem que Calculava (translated 1993 by Leslie Clark and Alastair Reid as The Man Who Counted)
- 1952: H.M. Cundy and A.P. Rollett: Mathematical Models
- 1961: H.M. Cundy and A.P. Rollett: Mathematical Models (2nd ed.)
- 1954: L.H. Clarke: Fun with Figures
- 1954: Борис А. Кордемский: Математическая смекалка
- 1972: Boris A. Kordemsky: The Moscow Puzzles: 359 Mathematical Recreations (English translation of Математическая смекалка)
- 1958: George Gamow and Marvin Stern: Puzzle-Math
- 1961: A.P. Domoryad: Mathematical Games and Pastimes (translated 1964 by Halina Moss)
- 1963: J.A.H. Hunter and Joseph S. Madachy: Mathematical Diversions
- 1963: Roland Sprague: Recreation in Mathematics
- 1964: Angela Dunn: Mathematical Bafflers (as editor)
- 1980: Angela Dunn: Mathematical Bafflers (revised ed.) (as editor)
- 1965: T.H. O'Beirne: Puzzles and Paradoxes
- 1965: Ronald C. Read: Tangrams: 330 Puzzles
- 1966: Martin Gardner: Martin Gardner's New Mathematical Diversions from Scientific American
- 1966: M.N. Khatri: Excursion in the World of Numbers
- 1966: Joseph S. Madachy: Mathematics on Vacation
- 1966: Peter Van Note: Tangrams: Picture-making Puzzle Game
- 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems (edited by Martin Gardner)
- 1969: Martin Gardner: Unexpected Hangings, and Other Mathematical Diversions
- 1977: Martin Gardner: Further Mathematical Diversions (reprint of Unexpected Hangings, and Other Mathematical Diversions from 1969)
- 1991: Martin Gardner: The Unexpected Hanging and Other Mathematical Diversions (updated edition of Unexpected Hangings, and Other Mathematical Diversions from 1969)
- 1970 - 1978: William L. Schaaf: A Bibliography of Recreational Mathematics
- 1973: Ross Honsberger: Mathematical Gems
- 1975: Martin Gardner: Mathematical Carnival
- 1977: Stephen Ainley: Mathematical Puzzles
- 1977: Martin Gardner: Mathematical Magic Show
- 1978: Pieter van Delft and Jack Botermans: Creative Puzzles of the World
- 1979: Martin Gardner: Mathematical Circus
- 1979: Joseph S. Madachy: Madachy's Mathematical Recreations
- 1983: Martin Gardner: Wheels, Life, and Other Mathematical Amusements
- 1984: Hugh ApSimon: Mathematical Byways
- 1984: Martin Gardner: Puzzles from Other Worlds
- 1985: C.W. Trigg: Mathematical Quickies
- 1987: Martin Gardner: Time Travel and Other Mathematical Bewilderments
- 1987: Michał Szurek: Opowieści matematyczne
- 1990: Hugh ApSimon: More Mathematical Byways
- 1991: Clifford A. Pickover: Computers and the Imagination
- 1992: Joe Roberts: Lure of the Integers
- 1992: Dennis Shasha: Codes, Puzzles, and Conspiracy
- 1992: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Puzzles
- 1997: Miodrag Petković: Mathematics and Chess
- 1997: Clifford A. Pickover: The Alien IQ Test
- 1997: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Mathematics
- 2006: Martin Gardner: The Colossal Book of Short Puzzles and Problems
- 2008: Ian Stewart: Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities
- 2009: Jeremy Stangroom: Einstein's Riddle
- 2009: Ian Stewart: Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures