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Truth and beauty : aesthetics and motivations in science / S. Chandrasekhar

by S. (Subrahmanyan), Chandrasekhar

A collection of lectures exploring astrophysical concepts such as the mass limit of white dwarf stars and black hole theory. The text provides a detailed and precise analysis of complex physical phenomena based on Nobel Prize-winning research.

Accession 30410 ISBN 0226100871 Publisher University of Chicago Press
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