pp 1-2 August 2003 Editorial

Editorial

G Nagendrappa

pp 3-6 August 2003 Article-in-a-Box

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac –An Appreciation

N Mukunda

pp 7-7 August 2003 Article-in-a-Box

Dirac’s Large Numbers Hypothesis

Biman Nath

pp 8-9 August 2003 Table of Contents

Table of Contents

pp 10-16 August 2003 General Article

Quantization of the Radiation Field

Avinash Khare

pp 17-26 August 2003 General Article

Dirac’s Conception of the Magnetic Monopole, and its Modern Avatars

Sunil Mukhi

pp 27-42 August 2003 General Article

On Ancient Babylonian Algebra and Geometry

Rahul Roy

pp 43-47 August 2003 General Article

Wollemi Pine: Living Fossil from Jurassic Landscape

N S Leela

pp 48-58 August 2003 General Article

All about the Dirac Delta Function (?)

V Balakrishnan

pp 59-74 August 2003 General Article

The Discovery of Dirac Equation and its Impact on Present-day Physics

G Rajasekaran

pp 75-85 August 2003 General Article

The Quantum Poisson Bracket and Transformation Theory in Quantum Mechanics: Dirac’s Early Work in Quantum Theory

Kamal Datta

pp 86-99 August 2003 Research News

Determination of Structures of Proteins in Solution using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Siddhartha P Sarma

pp 100-101 August 2003 Book Review

An Inspiring Biography

Vasant Natarajan

pp 102-110 August 2003 Classics

XI. The Relation between Mathematics and Physics

P A M Dirac

pp 112-112 August 2003 Flowering Trees

Zizyphus jujuba Lam. of Rhamnaceae

pp 113-113 August 2003 Featured Scientist

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (1902-1984)

Article ID 1 August 2003 Information and Announcements

Refresher Course on Earth Sciences