Resonance     journal of science education

November 2005 Volume 10 Number 11
Editorial / Editor’s Column 
Priti Shankar
Article-in-a-Box 
J Maynard Smith: From Engineering to Evolution
Amitabh Joshi
 The Logic of Animal Conflict
Raghavendra Gadagkar
  GENERAL ARTICLES
08 Spintronics Devices and Materials
R Srinivasan
18 Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem
Renuka Ravindran
27 Smart Structures and Materials
V K Wadhawan
42 100 years of Einstein’s Theory of Brownian Motion: From Pollen Grains to Protein Trains – 2.
Debashish Chowdhury
55 Bethe’s Contributions to Solid State Theory: A Tribute
H R Krishnamurthy
70 John Maynard Smith (1920-2004) “One of the last Grand Evolutionary Theorists of the 20th Century”
Vidyanand Nanjundiah
79 CLASSROOM
  Loading Effects on Resolution in Thin Layer Chromatography and Paper Chromatography
K Girigowda and V H Mulimani
  Learning Earthquake Design and Construction – 23. Why are Buildings with Shear Walls Preferred in Seismic Regions?
C V R Murty
  Learning Earthquake Design and Construction – 24. How to Reduce Earthquake Effects on Buildings?
C V R Murty
93
 BOOK REVIEWS
Indian Mathematics and Astronomy – Some Landmarks
B Sury
“Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution”
Raghavendra Gadagkar
98
 REFLECTIONS
Postmodern View of Humanistic Mathematics
M S Moslehian
INFORMATION AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
Nobel Prize 2005
A DST Sponsored Workshop on Methods in Behavioural Ecology
JEST 2006
National Board for Higher Mathematics
Inside Back Cover
Flowering Trees
(Credits: K Sankara Rao,IISc)


Front Cover
Mechanical analog computer

Back Cover

Vannevar Bush
( 1890–1974 )
( Illustration by C Seema, CES, IISc )

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