num_pages: 180
description: "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 precision, thoroughness, lucidity."—Sir Hermann Bondi, NatureThe late S. Chandrasekhar was best known for his discovery of the upperlimit to the mass of a white dwarf star, for which he received the NobelPrize in Physics in 1983. He was the author of many books, includingThe Mathematical Theory of Black Holes and, most recently,Newton's Principia for the Common Reader.
language: English
title: Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science
titlecomplete: Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science
genres: Physics, Mathematics, History, Philosophy, Science, History Of Science, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 68
publisher: University of Chicago Press