Truth and Beauty：Aesthetics and Motivations in Science

"Whatasplendidbook!Readingitisajoy,andforme,atleast,continuingreadingitbecamecompulsive....Chandrasekharisadistinguishedastrophysicistandeveryoneofthelecturesbearsthehallmarkofallhiswork:precision,thoroughness,lucidity."--SirHermannBondi,"Nature"ThelateS.Chandrasekharwasbestknownforhisdiscoveryoftheupperlimittothemassofawhitedwarfstar,forwhichhereceivedtheNobelPrizeinPhysicsin1983.Hewastheauthorofmanybooks,including"TheMathematicalTheoryofBlackHoles"and,mostrecently,"Newton'sPrincipiafortheCommonReader."