Resonance     journal of science education

February 1996      Volume 1  Number 2
Editorial 
Chief Editor's column - After the Eclipse
Rajaram Nityananda
GUEST ARTICLE 
Higher Education in India
R Narasimha
  SERIES ARTICLES
12 Origin (?) of the Universe The Expanding Universe
Jayant V Narlikar
18 Life: Complexity and Diversity The Expanding Biosphere
Madhav Gadgil
26 GeometryA Circle of Ideas
Kapil H Paranjape
32 Know Your Personal Computer The Personal Computer Hardware
S K Ghoshal
Learning Organic Chemistry Through Natural Products Determination of Absolute Stereochemistry
N R Krishnaswamy
 


The Series Articles on Algorithms by R K Shyamasundar, Fascinating Organic Transformations: Rational Mechanistic Analysis by Subramania Ranganathan and Know Your Chromosomes by Vani Brahmachari will appear in the next issue.

GENERAL ARTICLES
47 Artificial Neural Networks A Brief Introduction
Jitendra R Raol, Sunilkumar S Mankame
On Randomness and Probability How to Model Uncertain Events Mathematically
Rajeeva L Karandikar
  FEATURE ARTICLES
69 What's New in Computers The CD-ROM
Vijnan Shastri
74 Nature Watch The Dhole or the Asiatic Wild Dog
Arun Venkataraman
80 Molecule of the Month Isomers of Benzene - Still Pursuing Dreams
J Chandrasekhar
84 CLASSROOM
  On Bunsen Burners, Bacteria and the Bible
Milind Watve
90 THINK IT OVER
  The Richness of Chemistry / Prisoner's Dilemma
J Chandrasekhar
92
 REFLECTIONS
Translation of the article in Bengali titled The Crisis of Science written by Satyendra Nath Bose in Parichay (1931). Translated by Arnab Rai Choudhuri.
102 RESEARCH NEWS
  Nature's Solar Cell
Stephen Suresh, Gautham Nadig
  The Seven Component Coupling
Uday Maitra
  Discoverers of the Neutrino and Tau Recognized
K V L Sarma
Bose-Einstein Condensation Observed
Rajaram Nityananda
115
 BOOK REVIEWS
Probability Theory Without Tears!
 S Ramasubramanian
Africans in the Americas; A Problem?
 Raghavendra Gadagkar
120 Books Received
Information and Announcements
121 Integrated Ph.D. Programme in Biological,
Chemical and Physical Sciences at Indian Institute of Sciences
Introductory Summer School on Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Inside Covers
Guidelines to Authors
Acknowledgements

Front Cover
Photographs of the total solar eclipse which was visible in northern India on 24 October 1995.

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Back Cover
Satyendra Nath Bose
(1894-1974).

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