1. Editorial

   • N. Mukunda

   Departments Pages: 1 - 2

2. The inert and the Noble

   • A. G. Samuelson

   Departments Pages: 3 - 5

3. Music, mathematics and Bach

   • Rahul Siddharthan

   General Article Pages: 8 - 15

4. Second sound

   • R. Srinivasan

   General Article Pages: 16 - 24

5. Whoever said nothing is impossible?

   • Shashidhar Jagadeeshan

   General Article Pages: 25 - 38

6. Prisoner’s dilemma and other games that animals play

   • Kartik Shanker

   General Article Pages: 39 - 44

7. Systems and control engineering

   • A. Rama Kalyan
   • J. R. Vengateswaran

   General Article Pages: 45 - 52

8. Names of the heavier elements

   • Jitendra K. Bera

   General Article Pages: 53 - 61

9. Nature watch

   • K. C. Manorama Thampatti
   • K. G. Padmakumar

   Feature Article Pages: 62 - 70

10. Doctor’s dilemma

    • T. Krishnan

    Departments Pages: 71 - 73

11. Answer to Think-It-Over problems posed by A Krishna Murthy in, Vol.2, No.9, 1998, p.73

    • Shubham Sharma
    • Pramit Chowdhury
    • R. G. Revaiah

    Departments Pages: 74 - 75

12. Answer to ‘A Poser’

    • L. V. Krishnan
    • S. M. Lee

    Departments Pages: 75 - 76

13. The work of the fields medallists: 1998

    • C. S. Rajan

    Research News Pages: 77 - 80

14. The story of Fermat’s Last Theorem

    • Shailesh A. Shirali

    Book Review Pages: 81 - 84

15. Reflections

    • Vasant R. Khokhle

    OriginalPaper Pages: 85 - 86

16. Language and freedom

    • Noam Chomsky

    Reflections Pages: 86 - 104

17. Errata

    • G. Kallianpur

    Erratum Pages: 104 - 104

18. Acknowledgements

    • J. Chandrashekar

    Acknowledgments Pages: N1 - N1