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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... stellar dynamics , " which is rapidly growing in range and scope . I shall have a few things to say about this later . Let me turn from this classic example of the universality of nature's laws to a more recent advance which in some ...
... stellar dynamics , " which is rapidly growing in range and scope . I shall have a few things to say about this later . Let me turn from this classic example of the universality of nature's laws to a more recent advance which in some ...
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... stellar evolution . And it is not impossible that the occurrence of the supernova phenomenon is in some ways related to this . I shall not go into these matters now , but I mention these only to draw your attention to the manner in ...
... stellar evolution . And it is not impossible that the occurrence of the supernova phenomenon is in some ways related to this . I shall not go into these matters now , but I mention these only to draw your attention to the manner in ...
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... stellar case gives a more com- plete picture of Brownian motion than even the motion of colloidal particles provides . I may further mention that the development of this theory enables us to predict in a general way the evolution of ...
... stellar case gives a more com- plete picture of Brownian motion than even the motion of colloidal particles provides . I may further mention that the development of this theory enables us to predict in a general way the evolution of ...
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... stellar sources , should have reached a stage so near completion . The story of these investigations forms one of the most romantic chapters in the history and methods of science : Indeed , for the most part it cannot be distin- guished ...
... stellar sources , should have reached a stage so near completion . The story of these investigations forms one of the most romantic chapters in the history and methods of science : Indeed , for the most part it cannot be distin- guished ...
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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