eprintid: 562 rev_number: 18 eprint_status: archive userid: 141 dir: disk0/00/00/05/62 datestamp: 2009-09-21 18:06:22 lastmod: 2019-10-03 22:52:18 status_changed: 2009-09-21 18:06:22 type: journal_issue metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 0 title: Engineering and Science, Volume 59:4, 1996 ispublished: pub subjects: journal_issue full_text_status: public date: 1996 date_type: published publication: Engineering and Science volume: 59 number: 4 publisher: California Institute of Technology place_of_pub: Pasadena, CA id_number: CaltechES:59.4.0 refereed: FALSE issn: 0013-7812 editors_name: Dietrich, Jane S. editors_id: Dietrich-J-S official_url: https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechES:59.4.0 rights: You are granted permission for individual, educational, research and non-commercial reproduction, distribution, display and performance of this work in any format. collection: CaltechES toc:

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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