S Chandrasekhar: The Man Behind The Legend (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Imperial College Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 1997
First published:	1997
Editors:	Kameshwar C. Wali
Dimensions:	230 x 160 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	236
ISBN-13:	978-1-86094-038-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Applied mathematics > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Applied physics & special topics > Astrophysics Books > Biography > General Promotions
LSN:	1-86094-038-2
Barcode:	9781860940385

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