pp 1-2 October 1996 Editorial

Editorial

N Mukunda

pp 3-3 October 1996 Science Smiles

Science Smiles

R K Laxman

pp 6-13 October 1996 Series Article

What Can the Answer be? Reciprocal Basis and Dual Vectors

V Balakrishnan

pp 14-25 October 1996 Series Article

Know Your Chromosomes The Paths to Disorder Are Many

Vani Brahmachari

pp 26-36 October 1996 Series Article

Error Correcting Codes How Numbers Protect Themselves

Priti Shankar

pp 37-43 October 1996 Series Article

Learning Organic Chemistry Through Natural Products Architectural Designs in Molecular Constructions

N R Krishnaswamy

pp 44-55 October 1996 General Article

Fourier Series The Mathematics of Periodic Phenomena

S Thangavelu

pp 56-62 October 1996 General Article

Barbara McClintock and the Discovery of Jumping Genes

Vidyanand Nanjundiah

pp 63-75 October 1996 Feature Article

What's New in Computers Database Mining

Jayant R Haritsa

pp 76-78 October 1996 Classroom

Quantum Theory of the Doppler Effect

G S Ranganath

pp 78-81 October 1996 Classroom

Microbiology as if Bird Watching

Milind G Watve

pp 82-83 October 1996 Think It Over

Counting Molecules in a Spoonful of Water

J Chandrasekhar

pp 84-86 October 1996 Research News

How to Move in a Jostling Crowd The Art of Harnessing Random Motions

G S Ranganath

pp 87-91 October 1996 Book Review

Harmonic Analysis Fourier Series and Beyond

K R Parthasarathy

pp 92-93 October 1996 Book Review

Basic Biotechnology

S Vijaya

pp 94-94 October 1996

Acknowledgements

pp 95-95 October 1996 Errata

Errata

pp 98-98 October 1996 Featured Scientist

Barbara McClintock (1902-1992)