Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science

Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science
ISBN-10
0226100871
ISBN-13
9780226100876
Series
Truth and Beauty
Category
Science
Pages
170
Language
English
Published
1990-10-15
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Author
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

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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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