Resonance     journal of science education

March 1998 Volume 3 Number 3
Editorial 
N. Mukunda
Paul Erdös
C S Yogananda
Science Smiles
R K Laxman
  GENERAL ARTICLES
08 Cretaceous – Tertiary Mass Extinction Meteoritic Versus Volcanic Causes
P V Sukumaran
18 Probing the Solar Interior Hearing the Heartbeats of the Sun
Ashok Ambastha
Enzyme Vs. Extremozyme What Makes Extremozymes Function Under Harsh
Conditions?
Santosh Kumar
41 Plant Glandular Trichomes Chemical Factories with Many Potential Uses
A John Peter and Thomas G Shanower
46 Expert Systems : An Introduction
K S R Anjaneyulu
59 Barytes An Industrially Useful Mineral Abundantly Available in India
V Raghu
62 CLASSROOM
  On Two Problems of Paul Erdös in Combinatorics
Shailesh Shirali
  Qualitative Organic Analysis Lab
Sangeeta Pandita
70 THINK IT OVER
  Integral Distances: A Problem from Paul Erdös
Shailesh Shirali
  A Burning Question
J V Narlikar
71
RESEARCH NEWS
International Team Shows that Primes Can Be Found in Surprising Places
Andrew Granville
73
BOOK REVIEWS
Physical Chemistry
Mohammed Farooq Ahmed
They Make Space and Give Time The Engineer as Poet
Gangan Prathap
Thermodynamics: An Exposition for the Layman
R Srinivasan
81
REFLECTIONS
Ramanujan and I
Paul Erdös
93
INFORMATION AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
Living Science Creatively
A Rajanikanth


Front Cover
Ribbon structure of thymidylate synthase that has been engineered to function at high temperatures. (Also see the article on page 32).

Back Cover

Paul Erdös
( 1913–1996 )

 

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