Quest For Perspectives Selected Works Of S Chandrasekhar A With Commentary In 2 Vols

Author : Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 1860942083
Total Pages : 1449 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Quest for Perspectives written by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2001 with total page 1449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This invaluable book presents selected papers of S Chandrasekhar, co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1983 and a scientific giant well known for his prolific and monumental contributions to astrophysics, physics and applied mathematics. The reader will find here most of Chandrasekhar's articles that led to major developments in various areas of physics and astrophysics. There are also articles of a popular and historical nature, as well as some hitherto unpublished material based on Chandrasekhar's talks at conferences. Each section of the book contains annotations by the editor.

Author : Kameshwar C Wali
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 1783261846
Total Pages : 1449 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quest For Perspectives: Selected Works Of S Chandrasekhar, A (With Commentary) (In 2 Vols) written by Kameshwar C Wali and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2001-09-07 with total page 1449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This invaluable book presents selected papers of S Chandrasekhar, co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1983 and a scientific giant well known for his prolific and monumental contributions to astrophysics, physics and applied mathematics. The reader will find here most of Chandrasekhar's articles that led to major developments in various areas of physics and astrophysics. There are also articles of a popular and historical nature, as well as some hitherto unpublished material based on Chandrasekhar's talks at conferences. Each section of the book contains annotations by the editor.

Author : Dhruba Jyoti Saikia
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814405272
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fluid Flows To Black Holes: A Tribute To S Chandrasekhar On His Birth Centenary written by Dhruba Jyoti Saikia and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2011-12-28 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book contains a biographical portrait, accounts of Chandrasekhar's role and impact on modern science, historical perspectives and personal reminiscences, several of which appeared in Physics Today, and reviews by leading experts in areas which Prof. Chandrasekhar pioneered. The reviews, which appeared in the Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of India, are either based on papers presented by scholars in the Chandrasekhar Centennial Symposium at the University of Chicago during 15-17 October 2010, or were additional reviews covering topics not represented at the conference by other distinguished astrophysicists. It provides a glimpse of some of the most exciting areas of modern astrophysics as a tribute to Prof Chandrasekhar on his birth centenary.

Author : Kameshwar C Wali
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9811208344
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book S Chandrasekhar: Selected Correspondence And Conversations written by Kameshwar C Wali and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Nobel Laureate in Physics, was a towering figure in 20th century physics, but remained a highly private man. The many letters and correspondence in this book reveal in Chandrasekhar's own words the depth of his pursuit of science as well as his personal struggles. This book is an important addition to the three previous volumes by Kameshwar C. Wali, including Chandra, A Biography of S. Chandrasekhar, S. Chandrasekhar: The Man Behind the Legend, and A Quest for Perspectives: Selected Works of S. Chandrasekhar (With Commentary), Volumes 1 & 2.Included in the correspondence are Chandra's thoughts and feelings about his student days in India and Cambridge, his trials and tribulations in the competitive world of British academia, his travels to Russia and Germany, and his unexpected and historic encounter with Sir Arthur Eddington. The book also includes rare correspondence and conversations with Lalitha, Chandrasekhar's wife of over sixty years. The letters and conversations with her reflect her own views of their life. She, a student of physics herself, eventually gave up her own work in science to become an integral part of Chandra's life. As Chandra wrote, 'The full measure of [of my indebtedness] cannot really be recorded; it is too deep and too all persuasive. Let me then record simply that Lalitha was the motivating source and strength of my life.'This new book adds a significant personal dimension to an extraordinary scientist and will give the public a deeper understanding of the man behind the legend.

Author : International Astronomical Union
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Total Pages : 820 pages
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Author : Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
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ISBN 13 : 9781860942860
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Total Pages : 1864 pages
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Author : Kristine M. Krapp
Publisher : Gale Cengage
ISBN 13 : 9780787627669
Total Pages : 650 pages
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Download or read book Notable Twentieth Century Scientists written by Kristine M. Krapp and published by Gale Cengage. This book was released on 1998 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides updated biographical information on 65 scientists included in the first four-volume set, as well as 250 new biographies of modern scientists.

Author : Andrew J. Rotter
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501718649
Total Pages : 368 pages
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Download or read book Comrades at Odds written by Andrew J. Rotter and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comrades at Odds explores the complicated Cold War relationship between the United States and the newly independent India of Jawaharlal Nehru from a unique perspective—that of culture, broadly defined. In a departure from the usual way of doing diplomatic history, Andrew J. Rotter chose culture as his jumping-off point because, he says, "Like the rest of us, policymakers and diplomats do not shed their values, biases, and assumptions at their office doors. They are creatures of culture, and their attitudes cannot help but shape the policy they make." To define those attitudes, Rotter consults not only government documents and the memoirs of those involved in the events of the day, but also literature, art, and mass media. "An advertisement, a photograph, a cartoon, a film, and a short story," he finds, "tell us in their own ways about relations between nations as surely as a State Department memorandum does."While expanding knowledge about the creation and implementation of democracy, Rotter carries his analysis across the categories of race, class, gender, religion, and culturally infused practices of governance, strategy, and economics.Americans saw Indians as superstitious, unclean, treacherous, lazy, and prevaricating. Indians regarded Americans as arrogant, materialistic, uncouth, profane, and violent. Yet, in spite of these stereotypes, Rotter notes the mutual recognition of profound similarities between the two groups; they were indeed "comrades at odds."