Resonance     journal of science education

April 1998 Volume 3  Number 4
Editorial 
N. Mukunda
A N Kolmogorov
P Sundar
Science Smiles
R K Laxman
  SERIES ARTICLES
06 Chaos Introduction to Chaos
K Krishan, Manu and R Ramaswamy
15 Algorithms Correctness of Programs
R K Shyamasundar
30 Molecules to Materials An Overview of Functional Molecular Solids Effect
T P Radhakrishnan
  GENERAL ARTICLES
43 Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser Theorem Can Planetary Motion be Stable?
Govindan Rangarajan
54 Andrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov
K R Parthasarathy
64 Gender in Plants Why Do Plants Change Sex?
Renee M Borges
72 Who Will Win the Toss?
H Ramesh and V Vinay
On Benzene and Aromaticity History and Some Folklore
M V Bhatt
94 CLASSROOM
  Pitfalls in Elementary Physics
Arvind Kumar
103
 CLASSICS
The Theory of Probability
A N Kolmogorov


Front Cover
Views of saturn's rings from the Voyager spacecraft. Top left – the planet and its rings; top right – a closer view: note satellites in the background, gap in the rings, and shadows; bottom left & right – fine structure in the rings caused by satellite perturbations (chaos and resonance play an important role, see pages 6–14 and 43–53).
(Courtesy NASA)

Back Cover
Andrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov
( 1903 – 1987 )

 

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