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Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science
S. Chandrasekhar. 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 ...
Selected Papers, Volume 5: Relativistic Astrophysics
S. ChandrasekharThis is the fifth of six volumes collecting significant papers of the distinguished astrophysicist and Nobel laureate S. Chandrasekhar.
Selected Papers, Volume 1: Stellar Structure and Stellar ...
S. ChandrasekharThis is the first of six volumes collecting significant papers of the distinguished astrophysicist and Nobel laureate S. Chandrasekhar.
An Introduction to the Study of Stellar Structure
S. ChandrasekharIn chapters i-iv, Chandrasekhar presents the "classical" background necessary to his argument: the laws of thermodynamics (from Carathéodory's rigorous axiomatic standpoint), adiabatic and polytropic laws, and the work of Ritter, Emden, ...
Liquid Crystals
Sivaramakrishna ChandrasekharThis new and greatly revised edition of Professor Chandrasekhar's classic book Liquid Crystals (1977) presents a systematic and self-contained treatment of the physics of the different types of thermotropic liquid crystals--the three ...
Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science
S. ChandrasekharAesthetics and Motivations in Science S. Chandrasekhar. more, in placing his discoveries in the context of the entire domain of science that he was able to construct and perceive as a whole. Newton's attitude in this respect was not ...
Chandrasekhar Equations for Infinite Dimensional Systems: ...
Kazufumi ItoKazufumi Ito, Robert K. Powers. □ i in J a! ru NASA Contractor Report 178303 ICASE REPORT NO. 87-32 ! ICASE CHANDRASEKHAR EQUATIONS FOR INFINITE DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS: PART II. UNBOUNDED INPUT AND OUTPUT ...
Radiative Transfer
Subrahmanyan ChandrasekharThis book by a Nobel Laureate provides the foundation for analysis of stellar atmospheres, planetary illumination, and sky radiation.
Chandra: A Biography of S. Chandrasekhar
Kameshwar C. WaliPortrays the life of the Indian scholar, best known for his contributions to the fields of astrophysics, physics, and applied mathematics
Hydrodynamic and Hydromagnetic Stability
S. ChandrasekharThe Nobel Laureate's monumental study surveys hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic stability as a branch of experimental physics, surveying thermal instability of a layer of fluid heated from below, Benard problem, more.
Reproductive Physiology and Birth Control: The Writings of ...
PreviewThe Writings of Charles Knowlton and Annie Besant S. Chandrasekhar. THE BRADLAUGH-BESANT TRIAL desire to make an affirmation and not take an oath ), Bradlaugh finally succeeded in taking his seat in January 1886, when the new ...
Annual Reports in Computational Chemistry
Preview[12] W. L. Jorgensen, J. Chandrasekhar, J. D. Madura, R. W. Impey and M. L. Klein, J. Chem. Phys., 1983, 79 ... [14] M. W. Mahoney and W. L. Jorgensen, J. Chem. Phys., 2000 ... [49] M. Lisal, J. Kolafa and I. Nezbeda, J. Chem. Phys., 2002 ...
Optical Fiber Telecommunications VB: Systems and Networks
Ivan Kaminow... and support of their colleagues at AT&T, Bell Laboratories, and the Alcatel- Lucent Optical Networks Business division, and to extend special thanks to Martin Birk, S. Chandrasekhar, Randy Giles, Dah-Min Huang, Peter Magill, Patrick Mock, ...
Principles of Stellar Dynamics
S. ChandrasekharThis edition includes two papers by the author that were published after Principles of Stellar Dynamics and that have been studied and quoted extensively: "New Methods in Stellar Dynamics" (originally published in the Annals of the New York ...
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