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title: Engineering and Science, Volume 47:1, September 1983
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full_text_status: public
date: 1983-09
publication: Engineering and Science
volume: 47
number: 1
publisher: California Institute of Technology
place_of_pub: Pasadena, CA
id_number: CaltechES:47.1.0
refereed: FALSE
issn: 0013-7812
editors_name: Bonner, Jacquelyn
editors_id: Bonner-J
official_url: https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechES:47.1.0
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: <h2>Table of Contents</h2>
<p><b><a href="02/Issue.pdf">In This Issue</a></b></p>
<p><b><a href="02/Elachi.pdf">Seeing under the Sahara: Spaceborne Imaglng Radar</a></b><br />
  <i>by Charles Elachi</i><br />
  A report on how spaceborne radar really can see beneath the surface of the earth &#0151; and
  the trip the author took to prove it.</p>
<p><b><a href="02/Miles.pdf">An Applied Mathematician's Apology</a></b><br />
  <i>by John Miles</i><br />
  Alumnus John Miles makes the point &#0151; not really apologetically &#0151; that applied
  mathematics is primarily, if not wholly, concerned with the understanding of nature.</p>
<p><b><a href="02/Vision.pdf">A Unified Vision</a></b><br />
  Pictures from Baxter Art Gallery's recent show on Caltech's early architects and
  architecture reveal a relationship between the Institute's buildings and its educational
  commitments.</p>
<p><b><a href="02/Essen.pdf">Insight into Sight</a></b><br />
  <i>by David Van Essen</i><br />
  Mapping the functional subdivisions of the visual cortex in monkeys may lead to
  understanding of the basic principles of visual perception.</p>
<p><i>Departments</i></p>
<p><b><a href="02/Progress.pdf">Research in Progress</a></b><br />
Hex Sign &#0151; Budget Politics</p>
<p><b><a href="02/Retirements.pdf">Retirements &#0151; 1983</a></b><br />
  Burton H. Klein &#0151; Heinz A. Lowenstam &#0151; James O. McCaldin &#0151; Ray D. Owen</p>
<p><b><a href="02/Random.pdf">Random Walk</a></b><br />
  Ray E. Untereiner, 1898-1983, <i>by Robert Oliver</i> &#0151; People Power &#0151; Information
  Resource</p>

citation:       Engineering and Science, Volume 47:1, September 1983.  [Journal Issue]     https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechES:47.1.0 <https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechES:47.1.0>  
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