Resonance     journal of science education

August 1999 Volume 4 Number 8
Editorial 
N. Mukunda
Associate Editor’s Column
Alladi Sitaram
David Hilbert
Rajendra Bhatia
  SERIES ARTICLES
08 Mapmakers Techniques of Cartography
Harini Nagendra
16 Science and Technology of Ceramics Traditional Ceramics
Sheela K Ramasesha
  GENERAL ARTICLES
25 Ice Ages Periodic Ice Coverings on the Earth
J Srinivasan
36 Hilbert’s Nullstellensatz and the Beginning of Algebraic Geometry
Vishwambhar Pati
58 Petri Nets Overview and Foundations
Y Narahari
  FEATURE ARTICLES
70 Molecule of the Month A Stable Dibismuthene – A Compound with a Bi–Bi
Double Bond
V Chandrasekhar
75 CLASSROOM
  What is a Hilbert Space?
Alladi Sitaram
  Project Lifescape – An Invitation
Madhav Gadgil
91
 REVIEWS
Web Site Review Game Theory
Harini Nagendra
94
 BOOK REVIEWS
Chemistry of Natural Products: A Unified Approach
G S R Subba Rao
Hilbert
R Sridharan
103
 REFLECTIONS
Mathematical Problems
David Hilbert


Front Cover
A sketch depicting the process of eighteenth century surveying, by Henry Beighton (1728)
( Reproduced from The Mapmakers – The Story of the Great Pioneers in Cartography from Antiquity to the Space Age )

Back Cover

David Hilbert
( 1862 – 1943 )
( Illustration by T Thangapazam )

 

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