Front Cover
The fern on the cover is a computer generated fractal. It was programmed by C E Prakash of the Supercomputer Education and Research Centre, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, on a Silicon Graphics workstation. The method of generation is described by M F Barnsley in his book ‘Fractals Everywhere’ (Academic Press, New York, 1988).

 

Back Cover
John (Janos) von Neumann (1903 - 1957)
(illustration by V Pati)