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$Errata Page 37: the Structure of Geraniol Should Be 1 1 (+) Geraniolj'\$ GENERAL I ARTICLE Box 1. Edward Waring (1736-1798) was the son of John Waring, a farmer ill Shropshire, Eng- land. He went to Shrewsbury school and entered Magdalene college, Cambridge in 1753. There he impressed his teachers with his mathematical abilities and he graduated BA in 1757 as a senior wrangler. Waring's lnost famous work, Meditationes Algebraicae, was composed in 1759 when he was in Magdalene college and he submitted it to the Royal Society. Though it formed the basis on which he was selected to the Lucasian Chair of Mathelnatics in Cambridge (once held by Newton) in 1760 at the young age of 24, it was not published mitill 1770. He wrote a few other books on number theory and geometry but his writing was not lucid and so did not attract the attention it de.served. In fact, many of his results were rediscoverd by others and go by their names for example, Wilson's theorem. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1763 and was awarded the Copley Medal in 1784. Thomas Thomson's assessment of Waring ix perhaps the most accurate one describing him: Warin9 was one of the profoundest mathematicians of the eigh, teenth century; but the inelegance and obscuTity of his writings prevented h.im from obtaining that reputation to which h,e was entitled. Hardy and Littlewood was G(k) _< (k- 2)2k-1+ 5. Sub- stantial contributions, mainly by I M Vinogradov, H M Address for Correspondence Davenport, R C Vaughan and K Thanigasalam culmi- C S Yogonando MO-Cell (NBH/Vt, DAE) nated in the work of T D Wooley in 1992 who proved Department of Nlolhemotics that Indian Institule of Science a(k) < k(log k + loglog k + O(1)). Bongalore 5600]2, India. Email: [email protected] This remains to be the best result so far. Errata Resonance, Vol.8, No. 10, October 2003. Resonance, Vol.9, No.4, April 2004. Page 55: The Sanskrit sloka should read as Page 37: The structure of geraniol should be 1 I "-~ CH2OH [[ !! (+) geraniolj'\ RESONANCE I June 2004 .

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