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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... light . When modifications resulting from such high velocities are included , it was found that there is an upper limit to the mass of dense stars . This upper limit is in the neigh- borhood of 1.4 solar masses . The reason for the ...
... light . When modifications resulting from such high velocities are included , it was found that there is an upper limit to the mass of dense stars . This upper limit is in the neigh- borhood of 1.4 solar masses . The reason for the ...
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... light in a gravitational field and how it was later confirmed . In telling this story , I shall quote from a lecture by Eddington , who was chiefly responsible for the verification . The most exciting event I can recall in my own ...
... light in a gravitational field and how it was later confirmed . In telling this story , I shall quote from a lecture by Eddington , who was chiefly responsible for the verification . The most exciting event I can recall in my own ...
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... light and , further , the effect such an absorption would have on the solar spectrum . The theoretical problem of determining how the negative ion of hydrogen would absorb light turns out to be an exceptionally delicate matter . But the ...
... light and , further , the effect such an absorption would have on the solar spectrum . The theoretical problem of determining how the negative ion of hydrogen would absorb light turns out to be an exceptionally delicate matter . But the ...
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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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