Resonance     journal of science education

January 1996      Volume 1  Number 1
  A New Venture
P Rama Rao, President, Indian Academy of Sciences
Editorial 
N.Mukunda
Chief Editor's column, Resonance - Origins and Usage
J Chandrasekhari
  SERIES ARTICLES
07 Origin (?) of the Universe Historical Background
Jayant V Narlikar
14 Life: Complexity and Diversity A World in Flux
Madhav Gadgil
20 Algorithms Introduction to Algorithms
R K Shyamasundar
28 Fascinating Organic Transformations: Rational Mechanistic Analysis
The Wagner Meerwein Rearrangement and the Wandering Bonds
Subramania Ranganathan
34 Geometry The Beginnings
Kapil H Paranjape
40 Know Your Chromosomes Nature's Way of Packing Genes
Vani Brahmachari
48 Know Your Personal Computer Introduction to Computers
S K Ghoshal
Learning Organic Chemistry Through Natural Products Natural Products - A Kaleidoscopic View
N R Krishnaswamy
  GENERAL ARTICLES
63 The Honeybee Dance-Language Controversy Robot Bee Comes to the Rescue
Raghavendra Gadagkar
71 Fermat's Last Theorem A Theorem at Last!
C S Yogananda
  FEATURE ARTICLES
80 What's New in Computers Windows 95
Vijnan Shastri
86 Nature Watch The Kokum Tree
M D Subash Chandran
90 Molecule of the Month Cyclobutadiene in a Molecular Prison!
Uday Maitra
92 CLASSROOM
  On Being a Teacher
Milind Watve
98 THINK IT OVER
  The Population Explosion, A Question of Weight, All about Amino Acids.
J Chandrasekhar and Uday Maitra
101 RESEARCH NEWS
  Ring of Three Gallium Atoms Displays Aromatic Character
Photon Rao
  Clash of the Titans
Sanjeev Galande
  Discovery of the Top Quark
R Ramachandran
Factoring Fermat Numbers
C E Veni Madhavan
109
 BOOK REVIEWS
Algebra for Everyone
 Kapil H Paranjape, Dilip P Patil
A Joyous Romp Through Basic Physics
 V Balakrishnan
"Odd, Watson – Very Odd!"
 S Mahadevan
118 Books Received
Information and Announcements
119 India to host 1996 IMO
1994 Fields Medals
1995 Nobel Prizes
Inside Covers
Guidelines to Authors
Acknowledgements


Front Cover
The world beyond our Milky Way galaxy contains several exciting objects. Shown here are two galaxies IC 2200 - IC 2200 A which form a binary system in gravitational interaction. (Observed at the Las Campanas Observatory, Chile on 29 January 1995; processed at IUCAA.)

 

Back Cover
Pierre-Simon de Fermat
(1601-1665).

 

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Poster
Naturally Occurring Amino Acids

(Efforts are being maed to put figures in pdf of the articles in this issue.Inconvenience is regretted.- webeditor)

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