S Chandrasekhar: The Man Behind The Legend
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S Chandrasekhar: The Man Behind The Legend

  1. 236 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
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S Chandrasekhar: The Man Behind The Legend

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. CONTENTS
  2. Introduction
  3. "My Everlasting Flame"
  4. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar: My Anna 1910–1995
  5. S. Chandrasekhar: A Personal Portrait
  6. Chandra: The Great Guru
  7. On Working with Chandra
  8. Exploring General Relativity with Chandra
  9. A Remembrance
  10. Motivations of a Hero of Science
  11. Chandrasekhar and the End of Time
  12. Some Memories of Chandra
  13. Chandra at Caltech
  14. Some Memories of Chandra
  15. Memories of an Uncle
  16. Chandra in Focus
  17. Recollections
  18. What Knowing Chandra Means to Me
  19. Chandrasekhar — Some Reminiscences
  20. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Remembered
  21. Thursday Afternoons
  22. Chandra and Ramanujan
  23. Reminiscences of Chandra
  24. Some Personal Recollections of S. Chandrasekhar at Chicago and Oxford
  25. Chandra the Romantic
  26. S. Chandrasekhar, the Friend: Some Reminiscences
  27. A Towering Figure: Reminiscences and Reflections
  28. Encounters with Chandra
  29. Reflections on Chandra
  30. Reminiscing About Chandra's Research
  31. Reminiscences About Chandra
  32. Chandra and Isaac Newton
  33. Chandrasekhar's Research on Newton's Principia
  34. Recollections About Chandra
  35. Chandra's Visits to Poland
  36. Meeting Chandra
  37. List of Contributors