Chronology of Updates (1997)

December 31 1997	Between Arithmetic and Algebra
December 22 1997	Thanks to S.Brodie for the page "Inscribing a regular pentagon in a circle – and proving it"
December 19 1997	A drill applet for Trilateral Diagrams
December 18 1997	Trilateral Diagrams
December 17 1997	Bilateral Diagrams
December 16 1997	Started Lewis Carroll's Logic Game page
December 14 1997	Stewart's theorem and Heron's formula from the Pythagorean Theorem
December 13 1997	The Arithmetic-Geometric Mean Inequality as a consequence of the Pythagorean Theorem
December 11 1997	Another proof of Napoleon's theorem
December 10 1997	Brought the number of proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem to 25.
December 3 1997	Extension of Euclid's Algorithm
December 2 1997	Stern-Brocot Tree and Farey Series
December 1 1997	Tribute to Invariance
November 30 1997	Binary Euclid's Algorithm and relation of gcd to the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic
November 26 1997	What do you call a centipede?
November 25 1997	Squares, Circles, and Triangles
November 22 1997	Distance Between Strings
November 21 1997	Bounded Distance
November 20 1997	Sums and Products
November 19 1997	You can add apples and oranges
November 16 1997	Math Lingo: a bad meme virus
November 15 1997	Looping Chips
November 14 1997	Solitaire in the Circle
November 13 1997	Another proof of Napoleon's Theorem
November 8 1997	Hausdorff Distance
November 5 1997	A simulation for the Marriage Problem
November 4 1997	Further musings on proofs, intuition and axiomatics
November 3 1997	Thanks to S.Brodie for the Bolzano's Theorem page
November 2 1997	Thanks to W.McWorter for the Marriage Theorem
November 1 1997	Dividing Loot Fairly
October 29 1997	Another look at the problem of breaking Chocolate Bars
October 27 1997	Thanks to Richard Beigel for new discussions on Changing Colors puzzle, Separating point sets with a circle, and Irrationality of the square root of 2
October 26 1997	Number Guessing Game
October 25 1997	Euclid's Game
October 22 1997	Orthogonal latin squares
October 20 1997	4 Knights
October 18 1997	Latin Squares
October 17 1997	One solution to the Josephus Flavius problem
October 12 1997	Conversion of Fractions in Various Bases
October 10 1997	Abacus in Various Number Systems
October 7 1997	Upgraded pages on the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra
October 5 1997	Napier Bones
October 4 1997	Euclid's Algorithm
October 3 1997	Equivalence Relations
October 2 1997	Two weighing problems
October 1 1997	Euler's Function and Congruence Theorem and Chinese Remainder Theorem
September 30 1997	Spreading Memes
September 28 1997	Divisibility Criteria
September 26 1997	Wilson's Theorem
September 25 1997	Formal Framework, an example.
September 24 1997	Fermat's Little Theorem and A Real Life Story
September 23 1997	Modular Arithmetic
September 22 1997	Arithmetic Operations in Various Bases
September 21 1997	Deliberate Ambiguities
September 19 1997	Sperner's Theorem.
September 18 1997	Three Circles and Common Tangents.
September 17 1997	Flipping pancakes.
September 15 1997	A tool to verify some graph features.
September 14 1997	Generalization of the Napoleon's Theorem
September 13 1997	A beautiful property of aⁿ and a few pigeonhole problems
September 11 1997	Napoleon's Theorem
September 10 1997	Added a simulation for the Sperner's Lemma
September 8 1997	Infinitude of Primes and Ford's touching circles
September 6 1997	Diagonal Count
August 13 1997	Calendars, a story of mistakes
August 11 1997	Calendar Magic
August 10 1997	Impossible Machine and Long Runs of Composite Numbers
August 9 1997	Number System With Base 36
August 8 1997	Viewing a Statue
August 7 1997	Added a nice fact about Orthocenters and started a section on Inventor's Paranoia on the Generalization page.
August 6 1997	Added a Spanish Cryptarithm
August 2 1997	Squares and Circles game.
July 31 1997	Plus or Minus game
July 25 1997	Added solutions to the Pigeonhole Principle problems.
July 24 1997	A problem of Constant Chord and a consequence of the Ptolemy's Theorem.
July 19 1997	Mathematical Induction.
July 16 1997	Added the Cosine Rule and Proof #23 of the Pythagorean Theorem.
July 15 1997	Added Proof #22 of the Pythagorean Theorem.
July 14 1997	Ptolemy's Theorem and Proof #21 of the Pythagorean Theorem.
July 9 1997	Brought up the number of proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem to 20.
July 8 1997	Squaring a circle is an impossible task.
July 7 1997	Three circles problem with a beautiful proof.
July 6 1997	Identical Twins Puzzle.
July 4 1997	The Plainim game.
June 27 1997	Superposition Principle.
June 25 1997	Started a page on Linear Programming.
June 22 1997	Group multiplication of permutations.
June 21 1997	How to efficiently defend a castle.
June 19 1997	Ways to define and list permutations.
June 15 1997	Added a hint display to Blithe 12, Lucky 7 and Happy 8 puzzles.
June 13 1997	Added a beautiful proof and a related magic piece.
June 11 1997	Added a couple of pages on the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra.
June 8 1997	Added definition of Minkowski operations to the Addition of Shapes page.
June 7 1997	Added a couple of lemmas to the Groups of Permutations and supplied details for the solvability proof of the Happy 8 puzzle.
June 6 1997	Simplified the Binary Color Device.
June 5 1997	Added a page on multiplication of a vector by a matrix.
June 3 1997	Added a Northcott's game.
May 26 1997	Added musings on multiplication of sets and equations.
May 25 1997	Felt like explaining how the Base Conversion works.
May 24 1997	Added a little discussion on Tarski-Banach Decompositions.
May 23 1997	Added proofs #15, #16 and #17 of the Pythagorean Theorem.
May 22 1997	Added a proof #14 of the Pythagorean Theorem. Actually it's not just one proof.
May 19 1997	Expanded Four 4s up to 185.
May 18 1997	Added a little something on matrix multiplication and functions.
May 17 1997	Added the game of Scoring and Nimble
May 10 1997	Added a short discussion on multiplication of functions
May 9 1997	Added a few French cryptarithms
May 6 1997	Started a counter and made it funny on May 8.
May 3 1997	Added a simulation to the Breaking Chocolate Bar page
April 30 1997	Added a couple of beautiful facts
April 26 1997	Added a Reverse Solitaire puzzle. Also, made the whole of alt.bookstore searcheable.
April 25 1997	Redesigned Peg Solitaire. Added a variety of starting configurations.
April 22 1997	Added a page on Steiner's Theorem
April 20 1997	Added a page on Russell's Paradox
April 19 1997	Added a page on Vector product
April 18 1997	Began describing The many ways to construct a triangle
April 17 1997	Added a page on the Shoemaker's Knfie
April 15 1997	Computing a simple integral without Calculus
April 13 1997	A big day: stumbled into 4 more proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem to the total of 13.
April 12 1997	Added some musings on Shapes in a lattice and Separating point sets with a circle
April 10 1997	Added a Changing Colors puzzle
April 8 1997	Added a simple proof about a Longest segment
April 7 1997	Added a page on Peano axioms and multiplication of integers
April 6 1997	Started a page on Multiplication and another on Things Impossible
April 5 1997	Added a little discussion on Homogeneous Functions to the Generalizations page
April 3 1997	Started a Math Magic page
April 2 1997	Added a Generalizations of the Pythagorean Theorem to the Generalizations page
March 29 1997	Started a quotations page on Beauty of Matheamtics
March 28 1997	Added a couple of problems on Covering A Chessboard With Domino
March 24 1997	Added a couple of simple proofs
March 23 1997	Added Two coins and Train wheel puzzles to the Cycloids page
March 22 1997	Made the banner clickable
March 21 1997	Made a game out of the CHECKER - JUMPING problem
March 17 1997	Added some ass business to the Manifesto
March 16 1997	Added a beautiful proof about one of the conic sections
March 15 1997	Added a Weierstrass Product Inequality to the Generalizations page
March 14 1997	Added a short discussion on Breaking Chocolate Bars
March 13 1997	Added a Peg Solitaire puzzle
March 9 1997	Added a page on the Index Lemma and the Fixed Point Theorem
March 8 1997	Added a couple of pages to the Manifesto
March 2 1997	Finally added my Manifesto as to the purpose of this site. Couldn't wait until April 1.
February 28 1997	Added a Continued fractions page.
February 26 1997	Added a little something about linear functions.
February 24 1997	Added ruminations on the right way of adding milk to coffee.
February 23 1997	Added an article from The American Mathematical Monthly and my reply to it to the Mathematics as a Language page
February 18 1997	Added a page on Cantor Set and Function. Upgraded the Three 3's,4's, and 5's pages
February 17 1997	Expanded pages on Proofs in Mathematics and Mathematics as a language
February 16 1997	Started a page on Proofs in Mathematics
February 13 1997	Added the Turning Turtles game
February 11 1997	Added the Wythoff's Nim puzzle
February 7 1997	Added a proof of solvability of the Blithe 12 puzzle
February 6 1997	Upgraded Self-reference page
February 4 1997	Added a page on Misuse and Misconception of Statistics
February 3 1997	Upgraded the Coincidence page
February 2 1997	Started Mathematics as a language page
February 1 1997	Upgraded proofs for the Fifteen, Sliders, Lucky 7, and Happy 8 puzzles
January 30 1997	Added some musings about American Schoolteacher and my gullibility
January 25 1997	Started a page of Addition
January 24 1997	Scanned a few pages from The Power of Logical Thinking by Marylin vos Savant. Makes a good reading.
January 22 1997	Added a page on Mathematical Proof
January 18 1997	Added The only rational triangle page
January 16 1997	Added a Binary Color Device to help learn boolean bitwise operations.
January 5 1997	Converted the Bibliography page into a Bookstore in association with Amazon.com .
January 4 1997	Started a Fast Arithmetic Tips page.
January 1 1997	Added a page on Pigeonhole Principle

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