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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... Relativity 110 7 KARL SCHWARZSCHILD LECTURE The Aesthetic Base of the General Theory of Relativity [ 1986 ] 144 Preface The seven lectures collected in this volume present my vi / CONTENTS.
... Relativity 110 7 KARL SCHWARZSCHILD LECTURE The Aesthetic Base of the General Theory of Relativity [ 1986 ] 144 Preface The seven lectures collected in this volume present my vi / CONTENTS.
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... theory of relativity and continues the arguments of the earlier lecture on “ Beauty and the Quest for Beauty in Science . " The span of thirty years that separates my lecture on Preface.
... theory of relativity and continues the arguments of the earlier lecture on “ Beauty and the Quest for Beauty in Science . " The span of thirty years that separates my lecture on Preface.
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... theory of relativity has strengthened the same interests . ( I may add , parenthetically , that in some strange way , any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a " discovery " of mine , but rather as ...
... theory of relativity has strengthened the same interests . ( I may add , parenthetically , that in some strange way , any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a " discovery " of mine , but rather as ...
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... theory of relativity in the manner of the Principia . May it not be , that had the goals of science , as sought by the great scientists of the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries , retained their currency , the present dichotomy in ...
... theory of relativity in the manner of the Principia . May it not be , that had the goals of science , as sought by the great scientists of the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries , retained their currency , the present dichotomy in ...
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... concept of space and time implied by the general theory of relativity . In the same way , it is not impossible that the discovery by Hubble of the recession of extragalactic nebulae with velocities proportional to their distances may ...
... concept of space and time implied by the general theory of relativity . In the same way , it is not impossible that the discovery by Hubble of the recession of extragalactic nebulae with velocities proportional to their distances may ...
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