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I've just disentangled this topic from recreational mathematics. Although they are clearly related, these two are not the same thing. In the most simple terms "recreational mathematics" is a field of activity; a "mathematical game" may be one the elements within that field of study.---User:Eclecticology
This page seems to have little encyclopedic content apart from its relatives. I think it might be better as a disambiguation page between
I'm a newbie, though, and not bold enough to dike out whatever User:Eclecticology was trying to do. --Dan Hoey 04:09, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
Removed "Topo" from the list of mathematical games -- the article at topo is about climbing, and I found little evidence on Google to suggest that Topo is a particularly notable mathematical game. Apparently it appears in The Joy of Mathematics by Theoni Pappas, in case someone wants to write about the game, and there is a website with a brief description of it here. Mindspillage 01:34, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Most of these links do not meet WP:EL guidelines - broken, excessive advertisements, personal websites, etc. I went ahead and cleared this section. If there are links that do conform to WP and you feel that I have removed them erroneously, please leave a note here and discuss. Thanks! Calltech 14:52, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
The article needs a better definition of a mathematical game, with a citation. While looking into this I found that Bernard J Oldfield defines a mathematical game as
("Games in the Learning of Mathematics: 1: A Classification", Bernard J. Oldfield, Mathematics in School, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Jan., 1991), pp. 41-43)[1] However this would exclude chess, nim, etc, (unless played by mathematicians) and I don't think this is a correct definition, so I wouldn't include it without another source disputing it. If anyone can find an alternative definition, that would be good. --Colapeninsula (talk) 12:57, 24 June 2011 (UTC)