This is the third of six volumes collecting significant papers of
the distinguished astrophysicist and Nobel laureate S.
Chandrasekhar. His work is notable for its breadth as well as for
its brilliance; his practice has been to change his focus from time
to time to pursue new areas of research. The result has been a
prolific career full of discoveries and insights, some of which are
only now being fully appreciated.
Chandrasekhar has selected papers that trace the development of his
ideas and that present aspects of his work not fully covered in the
books he has periodically published to summarize his research in
each area.
This volume is divided into four sections. The first, on dynamical
friction and Brownian motion, includes papers written after
Chandrasekhar published his 1942 monograph "Principles of Stellar
Dynamics," Also in this section is "Stochastic Problems in Physics
and Astronomy," one of the most cited papers in the physics
literature, as well as papers written jointly with John von Neumann
that have been given impetus to recent research. As Chandrasekhar
notes, the papers in the second section, on statistical problems in
astronomy, were influenced by Ambartsumian's analysis of brightness
in the Milky Way. A third section on the statistical theory of
turbulence addresses issues still unresolved in fluid dynamics, and
the last section is devoted to hydromagnetic problems in
astrophysics that are not discussed in Chandrasekhar's monographs.
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