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Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science / Edition 2

Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science / Edition 2

by S. Chandrasekhar
Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science / Edition 2
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ISBN-10:
0226100871
ISBN-13:
9780226100876
Pub. Date:
10/15/1990
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10:
0226100871
ISBN-13:
9780226100876
Pub. Date:
10/15/1990
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science / Edition 2

Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science / Edition 2

by S. Chandrasekhar

Overview

"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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780226100876
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/15/1990
Series: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science
Edition description: 1
Pages: 180
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

S. Chandrasekhar has received many awards in his career, including the Nobel Prize for Physics, the National Medal of Science (U.S.), and the Copley Medal of the Royal Society (London). He is the Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, the Department of Physics, and the Enrico Fermi Institute at the University of Chicago.

Table of Contents

Preface
1. The Scientist [1946]
2. The Pursuit of Science: Its Motivations [1985]
3. THE NORA AND EDWARD RYERSON LECTURE
Shakespeare, Newton, and Beethoven, or Patterns of Creativity [1975]
4. Beauty and the Quest for Beauty in Science [1979]
5. MILNE LECTURE
Edward Arthur Milne: His Part in the Development of Modern Astrophysics [1979]
6. ARTHUR STANLEY EDDINGTON CENTENARY LECTURES [1982]
Eddington: The Most Distinguished Astrophysicist of His Time
Eddington: The Expositor and the Exponent of General Relativity
7. KARL SCHWARZSCHILD LECTURE
The Aesthetic Base of the General Theory of Relativity [1986]
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