Chronology of Updates (1996)

November 8 1995	Got my Home Page on line.
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April 8 1996	Added the Probability page with a random number generator
April 10 1996	Coded the Monty Hall Dilemma.
April 12 1996	Added a Square Coloring problem, a follow-up to the Magic Squares game.
April 18 1996	Coded the Three Pancakes problem.
April 30 1996	Added the Web Math Poll page.
May 8 1996	Added an Hour Glass problem, a follow-up to the Three Glasses one.
May 11 1996	Added Cryptarithm #10. From now on, in addition to letters, stars (asterisks) are allowed and stand for generic integers.
May 12 1996	Added Cryptarithm #11.
May 12 1996	Started this page to reflect the ongoing changes. The page is truly under construction.
May 13 1996	Added solutions to the Hour Glass problem.
May 17 1996	Added Ken Ross' solution to the Four Travelers problem.
May 18 1996	Added the Funny Arithmetic page.
June 4 1996	Added a letter from Anne Palmer Johnson to the Math Poll page. Also added a fourth solution to the Hour Glass Problem
June 13 1996	Added a Guest Book
June 23 1996	Added a page of quotations supporting the Web Math Poll.
June 29 1996	Added a collection of proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem.
July 5 1996	Completed (for now) the Pythagorean page and added a Java applet to demonstrate one of the proofs (due to Euclid).
July 7 1996	Started a Generalizations page and declared the site "Under emergency repair".
July 10 1996	Updated Monty Hall Dilemma with its multi-stage variant. Hour Glass problem. Probabilistic problems page with a problem by Lewis Carroll Generalizations page with a nice packing problem.
July 17 1996	Switched to a framed layout with a fixed toolbar. Added buttons to this page, Generalizations' page, Guest book, and the Hour Glass Problem
July 20 1996	Extended 4x4 coloring problem. Added Table of content and replaced Front Page Added a construction problem
July 23 1996	Started the Eye Opener Series
July 27 1996	Added Disappearing Lines and Sliders puzzles
July 30 1996	Added Sam Loyd's fifteen
August 1 1996	Added An Impossible Page and a discussion on the Sliders puzzle.
August 9-11 1996	Started the Analog Gadget page and added Peaucellier Linkage and Angle Trisection pages and Bertrand's Paradox to the Probability page.
August 17 1996	Started the Cycloids page, added some discussion to Bertrand's Paradox and added a simple Bear cubs page.
August 19 1996	Started (finally) the Other sites page. It's no longer a secret - I am not alone. Good for you.
August 28 1996	Put last touches to the cycloids page and added a short page on the Intermediate Value Theorem.
August 30-31 1996	Added a Josephus Flavius game and a discussion on a special case of hypocycloids.
September 2 1996	Added Tower of Hanoi page
September 6 1996	Added Four 4's and Three 3's pages
September 8 1996	Updated the Generalizations page with a discussion on the Ceva's Theorem pages
September 9 1996	Updated the Generalizations page with a discussion on divisibility by 81
September 11 1996	Added "Do you know that..." banner to the content page.
September 18 1996	Started Do you know that... page with links to a Page of Pi and Moebius Strip page
September 21 1996	Added an avi movie that demonstrates creation of the Moebius Strip
September 22-24 1996	Added a Shortcut page to list avi and, potentially, VRML resources on this site. Started the Knots page. Added knot formation movies
September 28 1996	Added Shapes of constant width to the Do you know that... and started the Coincidence page.
September 29 1996	Added a discussion on the Isoperimetric Theorem and Inequality
October 2 1996	Started a narrative page devoted to numbers with a link to Do you know that... page
October 9 1996	Finished the numbers page. At least for now.
October 13 1996	Started The CTK Exchange. Everyone is welcome to ask or answer questions.
October 14 1996	Added the Regular polyhedra discussion to Do you know that... page
October 15-20 1996	Added the Construction with the Compass Only page
October 19 1996	Made a couple of avi movies - creation of a torus and Klein's bottle.
October 20 1996	Started the Paper Strip page to present the movies in a unified manner.
October 27 1996	Started the Plane Filling Curves page.
November 1 1996	Updated my Sliders game so that it can be played not only on torus but also on the Klein bottle and Projective plane.
November 2 1996	Added the Fif game to the Games page. Also, started the In a few words... page.
November 9 1996	Added the What's next? puzzle.
November 10 1996	Added the Fractal curves and dimension page. Finished the Plane Filling Curves page.
November 11 1996	Started answering a long overdue question from the Inventor's Paradox page.
November 12 1996	Added another discussion to the long neglected Inventor's Paradox page.
November 18 1996	There is no stopping it now. Added generalization of the criteria for divisibility by 9 and 11 to the no longer neglected Inventor's Paradox page.
November 21 1996	Refreshed the "Do you know that..." banner. Started the second Do you know page.
November 23 1996	Inaugurated the second Do you know page with a discussion on regions with fractal boundaries and properties of implication.
November 25 1996	Continued with the second Do you know page. Added a discussion on continuity of functions and uselessness of Mathematics.
November 28 1996	Continued with the second Do you know page. Added a discussion on the impossibility of defining a complete order on complex numbers.
December 1 1996	Added a discussion on how the Mandelbrot set indexes Julia sets
December 3 1996	Added a discussion on chaos.
December 5 1996	Started a discussion on distance, things far and near.
December 8 1996	Modified Sam Loyd's fifteen. Now the board size is changeable. Added the Lucky 7 puzzle to the Eye Opener series.
December 11 1996	Added the Happy 8 puzzle to the Eye Opener series.
December 14 1996	Added the Blithe 12 puzzle to the Eye Opener series. Started a Graph Theory page to explain how these puzzles work.
December 16 1996	Added the Puzzles on graphs page
December 17 1996	Added the Permutation page
December 19 1996	Added the Transposition page, and, based on it, upgraded results for the Fifteen and Sliders puzzles.
December 24 1996	Started a page on topological curiosities
December 28 1996	Added a page on topological preliminaries
December 29 1996	Added a list of books cited on this site. Bibliography in short.
December 31 1996	Added a page on shredding the torus

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