Resonance     journal of science education

June  2001      Volume 6  Number 6

83

 

 Series Articles DEPARTMENTS



1
Editorial  
Associate Editor’s Column
  Vijay Chandru

Article-in-a-Box 

Henrietta Leavitt – A Bright Star of Astronomy
  Biman Nath

Think it Over

Think it Over     80
Solution to the 
Ten Pirates Problem

6 Numeracy for Everyone Numeracy in Social Sciences
Art and Science of Quantifying Amorphous Concepts, Impressions and Unmeasurables
  Anil P Gore and S A Paranjpe
   
18 Electronic Commerce
Electronic Data Interchange and XML
  V Rajaraman
   
General Articles
28 Einstein as Armchair Detective:
The Case of Stimulated Radiation
  Vasant Natarajan
43 Global Warming: A Myth?
Anomalous Temperature Trends Recorded from Satellites and Radiosondes
  Deepanjan Majumdar
53 Symmetry in the World of Man and Nature
Frieze Groups
  Shailesh A Shirali

Information and Announcements

Refresher Course in Experimental Physics Sponsored by Indian Academy of Sciences  

60 Voice-band Modem: A Device to Transmit Data over Telephone Networks
Advanced Ideas which made High Data Rates Possible   V Umapathi Reddy
71 Crowns and Crypts
A Fascinating Group of Multidentate Macrocyclic Ligands
 Debasis Bandyopadhyay
   

 

A poster on Benzene and Its Isomers 
(with hard copy)
Gopalpur Nagendrappa
RESEARCH NEWS
82 Honeybees use a ‘Speedometer’ to Navigate Successfully
  Moushumi Sen Sarma
86 Learning from a Sea Snail: Eric Kandel
  Rohini Balakrishnan
  Resonance June 2001 Book Revieew
BOOK REVIEWS
91 A Course in Number Theory and Cryptology
Rajat Tandon

 
     Front Cover
Resonance June 2001 Front Cover The Large Magellanic Cloud (ROE 14) 
(Reproduced from A Celebration of Colour in Astronomy by David Malin, Current Science, Vol.60, No.1, 1991. )

 

Back Cover
Resonance June 2001 Back Cover
 

Henrietta Swan Leavitt
( 1868 – 1921 )
( Illustration by Biman Nath )

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