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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Procura do Utilizador - 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 ... Ler crítica na íntegra
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| Título | Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science Aesthetics and Motivations in Science |
| Autor | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar |
| Edição | ilustrada, reimpressão |
| Editora | University of Chicago Press, 1990 |
| ISBN | 0226100871, 9780226100876 |
| Número de páginas | 170 páginas |
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