Resonance     journal of science education

January 2005      Volume 10  Number 1

 



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DEPARTMENTS



Editorial  
Editor’s Column 
Jaywant H Arakeri

Article-in-a-Box
Florence Jessie
MacWilliams
(1917-1990) )
Priti Shankar

Information and Announcements


National Initiative on Undergraduate Science – Calling Scientists to visit HBCSE

Refresher Course in Experimental Physics – Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahat

Inside Back Cover

Flowering Trees
(Credits: K Sankara Rao,IISc)

 

 
  GENERAL ARTICLES
06 The Sun’s Mysteries from Space – II
B N Dwivedi and A Mohan
17 Numerical Methods in Linguistics
An Introduction to Glottochronology
Raamesh Gowri Raghavan
25 Expander Codes
The Sipser–Spielman Construction
Priti Shankar
41 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004
Ubiquitous’ Quality Control of Life
C S Karigar and K R Siddalinga Murthy
50 Graph Theory to Pure Mathematics: Some
Illustrative Examples
V Yegnanarayanan
   
  BOOK REVIEWS
91 Springer’s Buys at Affordable Price
B Sury
 
 
CLASSROOM

Must Books that are Popular be Closer to Top of the Stack?
Soubhik Chakraborty and Pranvesh Mukherjee
Making Introductory Quantum Physics Understandable and Interesting
Ranjana Y Abhang
MacWilliams Identities?
Madhu Sudan
Learning Earthquake Design and Construction – 11. What are the Indian Seismic Codes?
C V R Murty
Learning Earthquake Design and Construction – 12. How do Brick Masonry Houses Behave during Earthquakes?
C V R Murty
   
  PERSONAL REFLECTIONS
93 Jochen and Werner Heisenberg
   

Front Cover


Pictures of Uranus taken during Voyager 2 mission. Sophisticated error correcting codes were used in the transmission of these images.

(Credit: Public Information Office, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, NASA, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA)


Back Cover

 

Florence Jessie MacWilliams
(1917 – 1990)

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