Resonance - journal of science education April 2002 Volume 7 Number 4

Resonance journal of science education

April 2002 Volume 7 Number 4

DEPARTMENTS

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Editorial
Associate Editor’s
Column
Amitabh Joshi

CLASSICS 98

Introduction
S Sivaram

Universities and National Laboratories
S S Bhatnagar

Information
and Announcements

Refresher Couse in Experimental Physics at Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research

Star Chart
Illustration: MG Kulkarni
Text: C S Yogananda

SERIES ARTICLES

Mathematics in Ancient India
An Overview
Amartya Kumar Dutta

Glial Cells: The Other Cells of the Nervous System
Astrocytes – Star Performers in the Neural Tissues
Medha S Rajadhyaksha and Daya Manghani

GENERAL ARTICLES

Bayesian Statistics
The Theory of Inverse Probability
Mohan Delampady and T Krishnan

Fractals and the Large-Scale Structure in the Universe
Is the Cosmological Principle Valid?
A K Mittal and T R Seshadri

Aerosols and Climate
S K Satheesh

Operating Systems
Functions, Protection and Security Mechanisms
M Suresh Babu

Existence of a New Force in Colloidal Systems – Hydrophobic Attraction Between Macroscopic Surfaces
B Sudhir and Sanjeev Kumar

S S Bhatnagar: Life and Times
Rajesh Kochhar

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar – A Visionary Extraordinary
S Sivaram

Front Cover
From the Bakshali Manuscript. This manuscript was unearthed in 1881 by a farmer in Bakhshali, a village about 80 kms to the north-east of Peshawar. It contains an exposition of basic arithmetic, extraction square-roots and cube-roots, arithmetic with fractions and practical problems of everyday commerce. It is written in a corrupt form of Sanskrit in Sarada script on Bhurjapatra (Birch-bark). A very good reference is ‘The Bakhshali Manuscript’, Takao Hayashi, Egbert Forsten, Groningen, 1995. (Colour scheme for cover by Jayant Rao)

Back Cover

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar ( 1894 – 1955 )

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