pp 1-2 December 2006 Editorial

Editorial

Renuka Ravindran

pp 3-6 December 2006 Article-in-a-Box

Isaac Newton (1642/43-1727)

Bikram Phookun

pp 6-7 December 2006 Article-in-a-Box

Isaac Newton and the Royal Mint

Biman Nath

pp 8-9 December 2006 Table of Contents

Table of Contents

pp 10-20 December 2006 General Article

Newton's Contributions to Optics

Arvind Kumar

pp 21-34 December 2006 General Article

Some Elementary Examples from Newton's Principia

H S Mani

pp 35-44 December 2006 General Article

The Celestial Mechanics of Newton

Dipankar Bhattacharya

pp 45-55 December 2006 General Article

A View of Newton as a Mathematician

A K Nandakumaran

pp 56-57 December 2006 Think It Over

Solution to 'On an Intriguing Limit Problem'

S C Dutta Roy

pp 57-59 December 2006 Think It Over

Solution to 'How Many Couples will Survive?'

Soubhik Chakraborty

pp 60-62 December 2006 Book Review

Not a Plaster Saint

Biman Nath

pp 62-62 December 2006 Errata

Errata

pp 63-86 December 2006 Reflections

Newton's Principia

D Speiser

pp 87-87 December 2006 Information and Announcements

Refresher Course in 'Topics in Mathematics and Physics'

pp 88-89 December 2006 Information and Announcements

Our Readers Write

pp 93-95 December 2006

Author Index

pp 95-100 December 2006

Subject Index

pp 101-101 December 2006 Flowering Trees

Artocarpus hirsutus

pp 102-102 December 2006 Featured Scientist

Isaac Newton (1642/43-1727)