Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science by C

ISBN: 0226100871

Author: Chandrasekhar, S.

Condition: new

"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, NatureThe late S. Chandrasekhar was best known for his discovery of the upperlimit to the mass of a white dwarf star, for which he received the NobelPrize in Physics in 1983. He was the author of many books, includingThe Mathematical Theory of Black Holes and, most recently,Newton's Principia for the Common Reader.