Resonance - journal of science education January 2002 Volume 7 Number 1

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Resonance journal of science education

February 2002 Volume 7 Number 2

Letter from Krishnan to Chandrashekar – 1946

General Articles

DEPARTMENTS

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Editorial
Associate Editor’s Column
Amitabh Joshi

Article-in-a-Box 2
Claude Elwood Shannon
Priti Shankar

CLASSROOM 90
Sums of Power of the Primitive Roots of a Prime
Abhishek Saha

Information and Announcements
Summer Training Programme – 2002
at PRL

Inside Back Cover

Star Chart
Illustration: MG Kulkarni Text: C S Yogananda

Fractals and the Large-Scale Structure in the Universe
Introduction and Basic Concepts
A K Mittal and T R Seshadri

K S Krishnan’s 1948 Perception of the Sampling Theorem
Rajiah Simon

Communicating Information
Bose–Einstein Condensation
K Viswanath

Untangling the Mystery of Alzheimer’s Disease
Understanding Molecular Mechanisms for Novel Therapeutic Approaches
Sovan Sarkar, Anupam Choudhury and T N Avinash

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001
From Yeast Genetics to Cancer Biology
Trupti Kawli

2001 Chemistry Nobel Prize
Continuing Importance of Stereochemistry
Mariappan Periasamy

From Shannon to Quantum Information Science
Ideas and Techniques
Rajiah Simon

Book Reviews

Electrostatics of Atoms and Molecules
G Narahari Sastry

Front Cover
The cover picture illustrates how chirality plays a very important role in the properties of molecules which interact with biological systems. (receptors, enzymes,etc.)
(Colour scheme for cover by Jayant Rao)

Back Cover
Resonance February 2002 Back Cover

Claude Elwood Shannon
( 1916 – 2001 )
(Illustration by Thangapazham, ISI )