Resonance     journal of science education

March 1998 Volume 4 Number 3
Editorial 
N. Mukunda
The Inert and the Noble
A G Samuelson
  GENERAL ARTICLES
06 Music, Mathematics and Bach Layers of Melody
Rahul Siddharthan
16 Second Sound Waves of Entropy and Temperature
R Srinivasan
25
Whoever said Nothing is Impossible? Three Problems from Antiquity
Shashidhar Jagadeeshan
39 Prisoner’s Dilemma and other Games that Animals Play
Kartik Shanker
45 Systems and Control Engineering Basic Concepts of Systems
A Rama Kalyan and J R Vengateswaran
53 Names of the Heavier Elements
Jitendra K Bera
  FEATURE ARTICLES
62 Nature Watch Rice Bowl in Turmoil: The Kuttanad Wetland Ecosystem
K C Manorama Thampatti and K G Padmakumar
71 CLASSROOM
  Doctor’s Dilemma
T Krishnan
74 THINK IT OVER
  Answer to TIO Problems Posed by A Krishna Murthy
S Sharma, P Chowdhury & R G Revaiah
  Answer to ‘A Poser ’
L V Krishnan & S M Lee
77
RESEARCH NEWS
The Work of the Fields Medallists: 1998 Richard E Borcherds
C S Rajan
81
BOOK REVIEWS
The Story of Fermat’s Last Theorem
Shailesh A Shirali
85
REFLECTIONS
Language and Freedom
Noam Chomksy


Front Cover
Rice, coconut and backwaters: A typical landscape of Kuttanad. ( See article on p.62 )
Photocredit: P Pramod

Back Cover

William Ramsay
( 1852 – 1916 )
( Illustration by Prema Iyer )

 

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