Engineering and Science, Volume 59:4, 1996

Table of Contents

Random Walk — How Now, Mad Cow? — Microbes on Martian Meteorite? — Galileo Shoots the Moons — Caltech Almost Makes the Movies

The Nodes Know — by Douglas L. Smith
Large computers made up of many small nodes are changing the way science is done.

A Centennial History of the Prime Number Theorem — by Tom M. Apostol
The best mathematical minds of Europe tried to find rhyme or reason in the pattern of distribution of prime numbers.

Books — The End of Science by John Horgan

Observing the End of the Universe — by Anthony C . S. Readhead
A new telescope to image the cosmic background radiation will provide a picture of the universe when it was 300,000 years old.

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