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, NatureThe 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.Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar is the author of 'Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science' with ISBN 9780226100869 and ISBN 0226100863.