Chandrasekhar: The Man Behind the Legend - Chandra Remembered - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 1860940382 ISBN 13 : 9781860940385

Editeur : Imperial College Press, 1997

Synopsis

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar -- known simply as Chandra throughout the scientific world -- has become a legendary figure for his prolific contributions to physics, astrophysics, and applied mathematics. Before his death in 1995, Chandra had forbidden a memorial of the conventional sort, celebrating his life. This book, which contains some thirty articles by his former students, his associates, and his colleagues, is in a sense a memorial volume. It says little about Chandra's great scientific achievements, but shows his human side and the various facets of his brilliant personality, his incredible memory, his wit, and the breadth of his knowledge of art, music, literature, and the humanities in general. The contributors to this highly interesting book are among the few who broke the seemingly forbidden barrier surrounding the very private Chandra and came to know him well in one context or another. They include Lalitha Chandrasekhar, Roger Penrose, Richard H Dalitz, J W Cronin, Robert G Sachs, Abhay Ashtekar, and Robert Wald.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Imperial College Press
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1860940382
• ISBN 13: 9781860940385
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 236
• Éditeur: Wali Kameshwar C.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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