Truth and Beauty : Aesthetics and Motivations in Science / S. Chandrasekhar.

By:

Chandrasekhar, S. (Subrahmanyan), 1910-1995

Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1987.Description: x, 170 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

0226100863
9780226100876

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

530.01 CHA 19

LOC classification:

Q175 .C453 1987

Contents:

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.

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Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
BOOKs	National Law School	MPP Section	530.01 CHA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		38131

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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.

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