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Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science

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Seven lectures detailing the author's thoughts on motivations in the pursuit of science and patterns of scientific creativity.

"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

Does aesthetics play a role in science? Can it be that science is given impetus by a ...