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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Truth and beauty: aesthetics and motivations in science
Nutzerbericht - Not Available - Book VerdictMathematicians often use the term elegant to describe a particularly creative theorem or proof. In these seven lectures originally presented between 1946 and 1985, a Nobel laureate in physics examines ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Inhalt
| 1 | |
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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Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science S. Chandrasekhar Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1990 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
A. L. Rowse A. S. Eddington aesthetic astrophysics atomic basic beauty Beethoven black holes black-holes Cambridge Chandrasekhar colliding waves Collision of impulsive confidence confirmation confirmed consider cosmical constant cosmological define density derived described Dirac discovery Einstein Einstein-Maxwell Einstein-Maxwell equations electromagnetic electron energy equilibrium Ernst equation example expeditions fact Fermi field figure finally find first five formulation G. H. Hardy gravitational waves Heisenberg helium impulsive gravitational waves Karl Schwarzschild Kepler Kerr later laws of gravitation lecture light mass metric Milne Milne’s motion nature Newton observations Observatory ofthe one’s orbit paper particles physical physicist plays prediction pressure problem pursuit of science quantum theory R. H. Fowler radiation radiation pressure reflection remarkable result Royal Astronomical Society scientific scientist Shakespeare significance singularity solar solution space-time stars stellar temperature theory of relativity thought tion universe velocities Weyl Weyl’s white dwarf wrote x1 and x2
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| Titel | Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science |
| Autor/in | S. Chandrasekhar |
| Ausgabe | illustriert |
| Verlag | University of Chicago Press, 2013 |
| ISBN | 022616277X, 9780226162775 |
| Länge | 180 Seiten |
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