pp 1-1 May 2000 Editorial

Editorial

V Rajaraman

pp 2-3 May 2000 Article-in-a-Box

Dmitrii Lvanovich Mendeleev

Animesh Chakravorty

pp 4-5 May 2000 Table of Contents

Table of Contents

pp 6-14 May 2000 Series Article

Evolution of the Atmosphere and Oceans: Evidence from Geological Records - Enhancement of Oxygen in the Atmosphere

P V Sukumaran

pp 15-25 May 2000 Series Article

Numeracy for Everyone - Just for Ecologists

Anil P Gore S A Paranjpe

pp 26-35 May 2000 General Article

Chaotic Dynamics on the Real Line - Non-Periodic and Chaotic Behaviour

S Natarajan

pp 36-44 May 2000 General Article

Some Aspects of Fixed Point Theory

P V Subrahmanyam

pp 45-54 May 2000 General Article

What are Objects?

H N Mahabala

pp 55-63 May 2000 General Article

Reliability - How to Quantify and Improve? - Improving the Health of Products

N K Srinivasan

pp 64-66 May 2000 General Article

Fulfilling Mendeleev's Dream

A G Samuelson

pp 67-73 May 2000 General Article

Glenn Seaborg 1912-1999

Gregory J Butera

pp 74-86 May 2000 Classroom

International Physics Olympiad '98 - Eddy Currents, Flux Linkages

Saikat Guha

pp 86-89 May 2000 Classroom

When are the Roots of a Cubic Real?

J Makesh Pravin

pp 90-90 May 2000 Think It Over

The limit of n-fold Sine

Shailesh A Shirali

pp 91-95 May 2000 Research News

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1999

Utpal Tatu

pp 95-100 May 2000 Research News

Bohrium - A New Element in the Periodic Table

Srinivasan Natarajan

pp 101-102 May 2000 Book Review

Fixed Points - From Russia with Love - A Primer of Fixed Point Theory

A K Vijaykumar

pp 102-103 May 2000 Book Review

The Medusa and the Snail

Harini Nagendra

pp 104-108 May 2000 Classics

Mendeleev's Faraday Lecture - The Periodic Classification of the Chemical Elements

pp 110-110 May 2000 Featured Scientist

Dmitrii Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834-1907)