Resonance     journal of science education

January 1999 Volume 4 Number 1
Editorial 
N. Mukunda
Norbert Wiener:
1. Control Engineering
Vivek S Borkar
2. Harmonic Analysis
Alladi Sitaram
  SERIES ARTICLES
08 175 Years of Linear Programming Pivots in Column Space
Vijay Chandru and M R Rao
  GENERAL ARTICLES
23 Crossing Bridges
Joseph Samuel
32
 Norbert Wiener and Probability Theory Some Reflections
G Kallianpur
36 Pollution of Coastal Seas
M J Varkey
45 Systems and Control Engineering Notions of Control
A Rama Kalyan and J R Vengateswaran
53 Self Assembled Monolayers
T Pradeep
63 CLASSROOM
  Order Out of Disorder
Supurna Sinha
67 THINK IT OVER
  Answer to Barometer Problem
Rajaram Nityananda
68
 RESEARCH NEWS
Fascinating Shapes and Structures Due to Entropic Forces
Kheya Sengupta and Kattera A Suresh
Adaptive Significance of Circadian Rhythms Biological Clocks and Darwinian Fitness in Cyanobacteria
V Sheeba, Vijay Kumar Sharma and Amitabh Joshi
76
 BOOK REVIEWS
Ex-Prodigy, My Childhood and Youth
R Narasimha
80
 REFLECTIONS
Some Moral and Technical Consequences of Automation
Norbert Wiener
89
 INFORMATION AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Institute of Mathematical Sciences
R Jagannathan
Visvesvaraya Museum – Invaded by Insects!


Front Cover
Regular Solids
(See the article ‘Crossing Bridges’)

Back Cover

Norbert Wiener
(1894 – 1964)
(Illustration by Prema Iyer )

 

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