pp 1-2 October 1999 Editorial

Editorial

Alladi Sitaram

pp 3-5 October 1999 Article-in-a-Box

Évariste Galois

C S Yogananda

pp 6-7 October 1999 Table of Contents

Table of Contents

pp 8-15 October 1999 Series Article

Great Experiments in Physics - Birth of Quantum Electronics – Lasers

Amit Roy

pp 16-21 October 1999 Series Article

Statistical Computing - Understanding Randomness and Random Numbers

Sudhakar Kunte

pp 22-39 October 1999 Series Article

175 Years of Linear Programming - Max Flow = Min Cut

Vijay Chandru M R Rao

pp 40-46 October 1999 General Article

Dark Matter - Dark Matter in the Universe

Bikram Phookun Biman Nath

pp 47-60 October 1999 General Article

The Theory of Equations and the Birth of Modern Group Theory - An Introduction to Galois Theory

B Sury

pp 61-68 October 1999 Classroom

How is a Vector Rotated?

V Balakrishnan

pp 69-77 October 1999 Classroom

Project Lifescape – Flowering Plants

M D Subash Chandran V V Sivan

pp 78-87 October 1999 Classroom

Teaching and Learning Genetics with Drosophila – Pattern of Inheritance of Autosome and Sex Chro-mosome Linked Genes/Characters

H A Ranganath M T Tanuja

pp 88-89 October 1999 Classroom

Colour Reactions with Co(II)

Uday Maitra

pp 90-91 October 1999 Book Review

A World View of Physics

Ramakrishna Ramaswamy

pp 91-92 October 1999 Book Review

Groups and Symmetry: A Guide to Discovering Mathematics

Geetha Venkataraman

pp 93-100 October 1999 Classics

The Last Mathematical Testament of Galois

pp 102-102 October 1999 Featured Scientist

Evariste Galois (1811-1832)