Resonance     journal of science education

May 1996 Volume 1  Number 5
Editorial 
N.Mukunda
Chief Editor's column / The First Electronic Computer
V Rajaraman

Science Smiles

R K Laxman
  SERIES ARTICLES
08 Geometry Curves vs Surfaces
Kapil H Paranjape
12 Learning Organic Chemistry Through Natural Products From Molecular and Electronic Structures to Reactivity
N R Krishnaswamy
  GENERAL ARTICLES
19 River Piracy Saraswati that Disappeared
K S Valdiya
29 Chaos Modelling with Computers Unpredicatable Behaviour of Deterministic Systems
Balakrishnan Ramasamy and T S K V Iyer
Echolocation The Strange Ways of Bats
G Marimuthu
49 Sampling, Probability Models and Statistical Reasoning Statistical Inference
Mohan Delampady and V R Padmawar
  FEATURE ARTICLES
59 What's New in Computers The Java Internet Programming Language
T S Mohan
68 Molecule of the Month Maitotoxin - Holder of Two World Records
J Chandrasekhar
71 CLASSROOM
  Pressure Melting and Ice Skating / Bunsen Burner - Revisited
79 THINK IT OVER
  Capillarity / To Switch or Not to Switch.
82 RESEARCH NEWS
Evidence for Bird Mafia!
Raghavendra Gadakar and Milind Kolatkar
85
BOOK REVIEWS
A Mathematician Looks at Physics
Vishwambhar Pati
A Down to Earth Exposition
Arvind
The Strength of Materials
Gangan Prathap
92
INFORMATION AND ANNOUCEMENTS
37th International Mathematical Olympiad / Indian Statistical Institute


Inside CoversBooks Received / Acknowledgements / Errata


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)

 

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