Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science"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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... basic science and a derived science . You will notice that my distinction is not between a “ pure science " and an " applied sci- ence . " I shall not be concerned with the latter , as I do not believe that the true values of science ...
... basic science and a derived science . You will notice that my distinction is not between a “ pure science " and an " applied sci- ence . " I shall not be concerned with the latter , as I do not believe that the true values of science ...
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... basic constituents of all nuclei . But you should not suppose from these two examples that all basic scientific facts are nec- essarily to be gathered only in the field of atomic physics . Indeed , the first example of a law which may ...
... basic constituents of all nuclei . But you should not suppose from these two examples that all basic scientific facts are nec- essarily to be gathered only in the field of atomic physics . Indeed , the first example of a law which may ...
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... basic . " Indeed , there are many physicists who seriously take this view . For example , a very distin- guished ... basic and the derived aspects of science . The basic concepts gain their validity in proportion to the extent of the ...
... basic . " Indeed , there are many physicists who seriously take this view . For example , a very distin- guished ... basic and the derived aspects of science . The basic concepts gain their validity in proportion to the extent of the ...
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Aesthetics and Motivations in Science S. Chandrasekhar. UNIVERSALITY OF THE BASIC LAWS In some ways the universality of the laws of nature is best illustrated by showing how this was achieved with regard to the law of gravitation . It is ...
Aesthetics and Motivations in Science S. Chandrasekhar. UNIVERSALITY OF THE BASIC LAWS In some ways the universality of the laws of nature is best illustrated by showing how this was achieved with regard to the law of gravitation . It is ...
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... basic laws is continually being extended . In the three illustrations I have given , I have discussed the appli ... basic ideas which account for the motions of microscopic colloidal particles in solution also account for the motions of ...
... basic laws is continually being extended . In the three illustrations I have given , I have discussed the appli ... basic ideas which account for the motions of microscopic colloidal particles in solution also account for the motions of ...
Contents
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Its Motivations 1985 | 15 |
Shakespeare Newton and Beethoven or Patterns of Creativity 1975 | 29 |
4 Beauty and the Quest for Beauty in Science 1979 | 59 |
Edward Arthur Milne His Part in the Development of Modern Astrophysics 1979 | 74 |
1982 Eddington The Most Distinguished Astrophysicist of His Time | 93 |
The Aesthetic Base of the General Theory of Relativity 1986 | 144 |
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