Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in ScienceUniversity of Chicago Press, 15.11.2013 - 180 Seiten "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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... scientific creativity . While the first of these lectures was given forty years ago ( under a special circumstance I shall presently describe ) , the remaining six were given in the decade following 1975 . As such , they may illustrate ...
... scientific creativity . While the first of these lectures was given forty years ago ( under a special circumstance I shall presently describe ) , the remaining six were given in the decade following 1975 . As such , they may illustrate ...
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... scientific accomplishment . The value of synthesizing one's vision , even if of a limited range , in one simple mosaic has faded . We do not , for example , ask whether Einstein , twenty years after the discovery of his laws of ...
... scientific accomplishment . The value of synthesizing one's vision , even if of a limited range , in one simple mosaic has faded . We do not , for example , ask whether Einstein , twenty years after the discovery of his laws of ...
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... scientific thought unparalleled in the an- nals of science . I would suppose that the discovery of the neutron by Chadwick is in the same category , as it is now believed that these together with protons are the basic constituents of ...
... scientific thought unparalleled in the an- nals of science . I would suppose that the discovery of the neutron by Chadwick is in the same category , as it is now believed that these together with protons are the basic constituents of ...
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... scientific efforts in doing exactly this , that is , in the furtherance of a derived science . A derision of the derived aspects of science , implying as it would a denial of the values which these men have so earnestly sought , is to ...
... scientific efforts in doing exactly this , that is , in the furtherance of a derived science . A derision of the derived aspects of science , implying as it would a denial of the values which these men have so earnestly sought , is to ...
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... scientific investigations in which predictions are made on the basis of laws derived from other evidence and confirmations are later sought for these same predictions . I suppose that the most spectacular of such predictions made in ...
... scientific investigations in which predictions are made on the basis of laws derived from other evidence and confirmations are later sought for these same predictions . I suppose that the most spectacular of such predictions made in ...
Inhalt
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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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A. L. Rowse A. S. Eddington aesthetic Arthur Stanley Eddington astrophysics atomic basic beauty Beethoven black holes black-holes Cambridge Chandrasekhar colliding waves Collision of impulsive consider context cosmical constant cosmological density derived described deSitter's Dirac discovery Einstein Einstein-Maxwell equations electron energy equilibrium Ernst equation example expeditions fact Fermi formulation G. H. Hardy gravitational waves Heisenberg helium hydrogen ideas impulsive gravitational waves interchanges x¹ J. J. Thomson Karl Schwarzschild Kepler Kerr later laws of gravitation lecture mass mathematical theory metric Milne Milne's motion nature Newton Newtonian theory observations Observatory orbit paper particles physical physicist plays polarizations prediction pressure problem pursuit of science quantum theory R. H. Fowler radiation remarkable result Royal Astronomical Society scientific scientist Shakespeare singularity solar solution space-time stars stellar temperature theory of gravitation theory of relativity thought tion Tycho universe Weyl Weyl's wrote x¹ and x²