Table of Contents

In This Issue

Books
Puzzle-Math by George Gamow and Marvin Stern
Fantasia Mathematica edited by Clifton Fadiman

Features:

The Challenge of the Space Age
Separating the sense from the nonsense about space travel.
by L. A. DuBridge

A Portfolio of Faculty Portraits...IV
by Harvey

A Search for Simplicity
Biophysicists search for the smallest known object that can give a clue to the hereditary pattern of the gene.
by Robert L. Sinsheimer

Campus News:

The Month at Caltech

Student Life
The Red and the Black
by Brad Efron, '60

Personals