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Truth and Beauty :
Chandrasekhar, S. 1910-1995.
Truth and Beauty : Aesthetics and Motivations in Science / S. Chandrasekhar. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1987. - x, 170 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographies.
What a splendid book! Reading it is a joy, and for me, at least, continuing reading it became compulsive. . . . Chandrasekhar is a distinguished astrophysicist and every one of the lectures bears the hallmark of all his work: precision, thoroughness, lucidity.--Sir Hermann Bondi, Nature The late S. Chandrasekhar was best known for his discovery of the upper
limit to the mass of a white dwarf star, for which he received the Nobel
Prize in Physics in 1983. He was the author of many books, including
The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes and, most recently,
Newton's Principia for the Common Reader.
0226100863 9780226100876
87013792
Milne, Edward Arthur, 1896-1950.
Eddington, Arthur Stanley, Sir, 1882-1944.
Schwarzschild, K. 1873-1916.
Science--Aesthetics.
Physics--Philosophy.
Motivation (Psychology)
Q175 / .C453 1987
530.01 CHA
Truth and Beauty : Aesthetics and Motivations in Science / S. Chandrasekhar. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1987. - x, 170 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographies.
What a splendid book! Reading it is a joy, and for me, at least, continuing reading it became compulsive. . . . Chandrasekhar is a distinguished astrophysicist and every one of the lectures bears the hallmark of all his work: precision, thoroughness, lucidity.--Sir Hermann Bondi, Nature The late S. Chandrasekhar was best known for his discovery of the upper
limit to the mass of a white dwarf star, for which he received the Nobel
Prize in Physics in 1983. He was the author of many books, including
The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes and, most recently,
Newton's Principia for the Common Reader.
0226100863 9780226100876
87013792
Milne, Edward Arthur, 1896-1950.
Eddington, Arthur Stanley, Sir, 1882-1944.
Schwarzschild, K. 1873-1916.
Science--Aesthetics.
Physics--Philosophy.
Motivation (Psychology)
Q175 / .C453 1987
530.01 CHA