Resonance     journal of science education

September 1997 Volume 2  Number 9
Editorial 
N. Mukunda
Science Smiles
R K Laxman
  SERIES ARTICLES
08 The Immune System and Bodily Defence How Does the Immune System Recognize Everything Under the Sun?
Vineeta Bal and Satyajit Rath
11 Know Your Personal Computer High-Level Operating Systems
S K Ghoshal
  GENERAL ARTICLES
18 How to Stay Away from Each Other in a Spherical Universe Tammes' Problem
Bhaskar Bagchi
27 Sir R A Fisher and the Evolution of Genetics
Amitabh Joshi
32 Fisher's Contributions to Statistics
T Krishnan
Electricity Its Generation, Transmission and Distribution
D P Sen Gupta
FEATURE ARTICLES
48 What's New in Computers ? MMX Technology for Multimedia PCs
S Balakrishnan
58 CLASSROOM
  Polarization of Light - An Experimental Approach
Vilas Gohad
  The Isoperimetric Problem
Alladi Sitaram
  Addition of Bromine to Carbon-Carbon Double Bonds
M V Kulkarni
73 THINK IT OVER
  B S Rangaswamy and A Krishna Murthy
75
 RESEARCH NEWS
Unruly Sun Emerges from Solar Space Observatory SOHO
B N Dwivedi
77
 BOOK REVIEWS
Concepts in Biotechnology An Affordable Overview of Biotechnology Through
Self Study and Open Learning Graduates
Narayan S Punekar
Life of R A Fisher
A P Gore
Algebra, Volume-I: Groups A Good Text Book on Group Theory for Post Graduates
K N Rajeswari
83
 REFLECTIONS
The Determinants of the Scientific Revolution Early Thinking
Virendra Singh
91
 INFORMATION AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
TIFR
Sunil Mukhi
Workshop on Vertebrate Reproduction; Confe-rence on Graph Connec-tions; Seminar on Science & Technology in Ancient India


Front Cover
A photograph of a small sail boat obtained using the principle of polarization of light. (Also see article by Vilas Gohad.)

Back Cover

Ronald Aylmer Fisher
(illustration by Prema Iyer)

 

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