Resonance     journal of science education

March 1996      Volume 1  Number 3
Editorial 
Chief Editor's column
N Mukunda
Fermat and the Minimum Principle
G Prathap
  SERIES ARTICLES
6 Origin (?) of the Universe The Big Bang
Jayant V Narlikar
13 Algorithms The While-Construct
R K Shyamasundar
24 Geometry Towards a Geometry of Space and Time
Kapil H Paranjape
30 Know Your Chromosomes The Strong Holds of Family Trees
Vani Brahmachari
  GENERAL ARTICLES
39 From Matter to Life : Chemistry?!
Jean-Marie Lehn
54 The Earth's Changing Climate Man-Made Changes and their Consequences
P K Das
66 Time in a Timeless Environment My Life in a Bunker
L Geetha
On the Infinitude of the Prime Numbers Euler's Proof
Shailesh A Shirali
  FEATURE ARTICLES
96 What's New in Computers Intel's New P6 Processor
Vijnan Shastri
103 Nature Watch Diversity of Bats
G Marimuthu
111 Molecule of the Month A 'Hexacationic' Benzene Derivative!
Uday Maitra
114 CLASSROOM
115 THINK IT OVER
  Hydrocarbon Acts Funny!
116 RESEARCH NEWS
The 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Vidyanand Nanjundiah
120
 BOOK REVIEWS
An Important Mathematical Theory Explained
 S Thangavelu
A Haldane Primer: Getting Messages Across
 S Krishnaswamy
125 Books Received
Information and Announcements
125 Academy Initiative in University Education.
Inside Covers
Guidelines to Authors
Acknowledgements

Front Cover
A space-filling model of a self-assembly of five ligands of two different types and six Cu(I) ions spontaneously producing a cage structure. See the article by J. -M. Lehn for details.

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Back Cover
R B Woodward
(1917 - 1979).

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