Resonance     journal of science education

October 1999 Volume 4 Number 10
Editorial 
N. Mukunda
Associate Editor’s Column
Alladi Sitaram
Évariste Galois
C S Yogananda
  SERIES ARTICLES
08 Great Experiments in Physics Birth of Quantum Electronics – Lasers
Amit Roy
16 Statistical Computing Understanding Randomness and Random Numbers
Sudhakar Kunte
22 175 Years of Linear Programming Max Flow = Min Cut
Vijay Chandru and M R Rao
  GENERAL ARTICLES
40 Dark Matter Dark Matter in the Universe
Bikram Phookun and Biman Nath
47 The Theory of Equations and the Birth of Modern Group Theory Introduction to Galois Theory
B Sury
61 CLASSROOM
  How is a Vector Rotated?
V Balakrishnan
  Project Lifescape – Flower-ing Plants
M D Subash Chandran and V V Sivan
  Teaching and Learning Genetics with Drosophila – Pattern of Inheritance of Autosome and Sex Chro-mosome Linked Genes/Characters
H A Ranganath and M T Tanuja
  Colour Reactions with Co(II)
Uday Maitra
90
 BOOK REVIEWS
A World View of Physics
Ramakrishna Ramaswamy
Groups and Symmetry: A Guide to Discovering Mathematics
Geetha Venkataraman
93
 CLASSICS
The Last Mathematical Testament of Galois
INFORMATION AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
Summer Research Fellowships – 2000


Front Cover
Cyclic symmetry in echinids (Class Ophiodea, Phylum Echinodermata). Reproduced from Weyl’s Symmetry. Princeton University Press.

Back Cover

Évariste Galois
( 1811 – 1832 )
( Illustration by T Thangapazham,
Library, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore )

 

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