S Chandrasekhar Selected Correspondence And Conversations Of Lalitha And Chandra

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S Chandrasekhar - Selected Correspondence and Conversations of Lalitha and Chandra

Author : Kameshwar C. Wali
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9789811208324
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book S Chandrasekhar - Selected Correspondence and Conversations of Lalitha and Chandra written by Kameshwar C. Wali and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The correspondence in Chandra's journals revealed in his own words the depth of his pursuit of science as well as his personal struggles, and such material is significant for the public to have a deeper understanding of the man behind the legend. The first part of the project was completed at the time of the Chandra birth centennial in 2010 with the publication of A Scientific Autobiography: Chandrasekhar. It provided a rare and personal insight into the joys and struggles of a brilliant scientist at work.There remained yet a wealth of correspondence that shed significant insight into Chandra's life, and this included the correspondence during his days as a student in India and Cambridge, his trials and tribulations in the competitive world of British academia, his travels to Russia and Germany, and his unexpected encounter with Sir Arthur Eddington. It also included selected correspondence and conversations with Lalitha, his wife of over sixty years. These letters and conversations with her reflect her own views of their life. She, a student of physics herself, eventually gave up her own work in science to become an integral part of Chandra's life. As Chandra wrote, 'The full measure of of my indebtedness] cannot really be recorded; it is too deep and too all persuasive. Let me then record simply that Lalitha was the motivating source and strength of my life ...'

S Chandrasekhar: Selected Correspondence And Conversations

Author : Kameshwar C Wali
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9811208344
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book S Chandrasekhar: Selected Correspondence And Conversations written by Kameshwar C Wali and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Nobel Laureate in Physics, was a towering figure in 20th century physics, but remained a highly private man. The many letters and correspondence in this book reveal in Chandrasekhar's own words the depth of his pursuit of science as well as his personal struggles. This book is an important addition to the three previous volumes by Kameshwar C. Wali, including Chandra, A Biography of S. Chandrasekhar, S. Chandrasekhar: The Man Behind the Legend, and A Quest for Perspectives: Selected Works of S. Chandrasekhar (With Commentary), Volumes 1 & 2.Included in the correspondence are Chandra's thoughts and feelings about his student days in India and Cambridge, his trials and tribulations in the competitive world of British academia, his travels to Russia and Germany, and his unexpected and historic encounter with Sir Arthur Eddington. The book also includes rare correspondence and conversations with Lalitha, Chandrasekhar's wife of over sixty years. The letters and conversations with her reflect her own views of their life. She, a student of physics herself, eventually gave up her own work in science to become an integral part of Chandra's life. As Chandra wrote, 'The full measure of [of my indebtedness] cannot really be recorded; it is too deep and too all persuasive. Let me then record simply that Lalitha was the motivating source and strength of my life.'This new book adds a significant personal dimension to an extraordinary scientist and will give the public a deeper understanding of the man behind the legend.

Empire of the Stars

Author : Arthur I. Miller
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618341511
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book Empire of the Stars written by Arthur I. Miller and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the idea of "black holes" explores the tumultuous debate over the existence of this now well-accepted phenomenon, focusing particular attention on Indian scientist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.

Chandra

Author : Kameshwar C. Wali
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226870553
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Chandra written by Kameshwar C. Wali and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chandra is an intimate portrait of a highly private and brilliant man, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, a Nobel laureate in physics who has been a major contributor to the theories of white dwarfs and black holes. "Wali has given us a magnificent portrait of Chandra, full of life and color, with a deep understanding of the three cultures—Indian, British, and American—in which Chandra was successively immersed. . . . I wish I had the job of reviewing this book for the New York Times rather than for Physics Today. If the book is only read by physicists, then Wali's devoted labors were in vain."—Freeman Dyson, Physics Today "An enthralling human document."—William McCrea, Times Higher Education Supplement "A dramatic, exuberant biography of one of the century's great scientists."—Publishers Weekly

A Scientific Autobiography

Author : Kameshwar C. Wali
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814299588
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book A Scientific Autobiography written by Kameshwar C. Wali and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2010 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: S. Chandrasekhar, popularly known as Chandra, was one of the foremost scientists of the 20th century. The year 2010 marks the birth centenary of Chandra. His unique style of research, inward bound, seeking a personal perspective to master a particular field, and then pass on to another was so unique that it will draw considerable interest and attention among scholars. As Chandra elucidates in the preface, "The various installments describe in detail the evolution of my scientific work during the past forty years and records each investigation, describing the doubts and the successes, the trials and the tribulations. And the parts my various associates and assistants played in the completion of the different investigations are detailed." It is indeed a remarkable and rare document, fascinating to read and experience the joys, frustrations and struggles of a creative mind. In addition, a compilation of selected correspondence, which includes his correspondence with his father, some family members and other well-known scientists of the 20th century, will provide an interesting insight into the life of an extraordinary scientist.

S Chandrasekhar: The Man Behind The Legend

Author : Kameshwar C Wali
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 1783262648
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book S Chandrasekhar: The Man Behind The Legend written by Kameshwar C Wali and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1997-11-21 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Sirius

Author : Jay B. Holberg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 038748941X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (874 download)

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Download or read book Sirius written by Jay B. Holberg and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-02-22 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells two stories. The first and most obvious is why the star known as Sirius has been regarded as an important fixture of the night sky by many civilizations and cultures since the beginnings of history. A second, but related, narrative is the prominent part that Sirius has played in how we came to achieve our current scientific understanding of the nature and fate of the stars. This is the first book to integrate the cultural history of Sirius with modern astrophysics in a way which provides a realistic view of how science progresses over time.

Yerkes Observatory, 1892-1950

Author : Donald E. Osterbrock
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226639444
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Yerkes Observatory, 1892-1950 written by Donald E. Osterbrock and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on his experience as historian of astronomy, practicing astrophysicist, and director of Lick Observatory, Donald Osterbrock uncovers a chapter in the history of astronomy by providing the story of the Yerkes Observatory. "An excellent description of the ups and downs of a major observatory."—Jack Meadows, Nature "Historians are much indebted to Osterbrock for this new contribution to the fascinating story of twentieth-century American astronomy."—Adriaan Blaauw, Journal for the History of Astronomy "An important reference about one of the key American observatories of this century."—Woodruff T. Sullivan III, Physics Today

Spirituality and Indian Psychology

Author : Dharm Bhawuk
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441981101
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Spirituality and Indian Psychology written by Dharm Bhawuk and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-03-18 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the emergence of positive psychology in the West, and the many fold discovery of the impact of psychology in one’s life, there is a need to understand spirituality, and to use its positive aspects to maintain a balance in hectic modern life. This book presents models for mapping basic psychological processes and their relationships. It covers basic constructs like cognition, emotion, behavior, desires, creativity, as well as applied topics like personal happiness, intercultural conflict handling, and world peace.

Black Holes and Relativistic Stars

Author : Robert M. Wald
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226870359
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Black Holes and Relativistic Stars written by Robert M. Wald and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive summary of progress made during the past decade on the theory of black holes and relativistic stars, this collection includes discussion of structure and oscillations of relativistic stars, the use of gravitational radiation detectors, observational evidence for black holes, cosmic censorship, numerical work related to black hole collisions, the internal structure of black holes, black hole thermodynamics, information loss and other issues related to the quantum properties of black holes, and recent developments in the theory of black holes in the context of string theory. Volume contributors: Valeria Ferrari, John L. Friedman, James B. Hartle, Stephen W. Hawking, Gary T. Horowitz, Werner Israel, Roger Penrose, Martin J. Rees, Rafael D. Sorkin, Saul A. Teukolsky, Kip S. Thorne, and Robert M. Wald.

When was Modernism

Author : Geeta Kapur
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788189487249
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book When was Modernism written by Geeta Kapur and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A commitment to modernity is the underlying theme of this volume. Through essays that are interpretive and theoretical, the author seeks to situate the modern in contemporary cultural practice. She sets up an ideological vantage point to view modernism along its multiple tracks in India and the third world.The essays divide into three sections. The first two sections, Artists and ArtWork and Film/Narratives, raise questions of authorship, genre, and contemporary features of national culture that materialize into an aesthetic in the Indian context. The last section, Frames of Reference, formalizes the polemical options developed across the book. The essays here propose resistance to the depoliticization of narratives, and affirm an open-ended engagement with the avant-garde. They explore the possibility of art practice finding its own signifying space that is still a space for radical transformation.Geeta Kapur is an independent art critic and curator living in New Delhi. Her extensive publications on modern Indian art include the book Contemporary Indian Artists (Delhi, 1978), exhibition catalogues and monographs on artists. She is currently writing a monograph on Tyeb Mehta. Her essays on cultural criticism have been widely presented in forums of art history and cultural studies. Her curatorial work includes the show Bombay/Mumbai 1992 2001 in the multi-part exhibition titled Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis , at Tate Modern, London, in 2001. Geeta Kapur is a founder-editor of the Journal of Arts & Ideas and advisory editor to Third Text. She has held research fellowships at Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, and Clare Hall, Cambridge University. For the past three decades, [Geeta Kapur s] has been the singular dominant presence in the field to a point that her writings alone seem to have constituted the whole field of modern Indian art theory and criticism. Tapati Guha-Thakurta, Biblio (Delhi), May June 2001. Geeta Kapur is a magisterial presence in the sphere of modern Indian art. [The] insistence on the primacy of bearing witness to creative practice has been the leitmotif of Kapur s work. . . . Kapur s contribution . . . is best understood by reflection on the radical change that her activity has brought about in Indian art criticism. Ranjit Hoskote, Art India (Mumbai), Vol. VI, 1, 2001. When Was Modernism is a book of essays: imaginative, interpretive, argumentative, polemical, political and, in the combined sense of all these, historical. . . . [It] provides an instance of passionate engagement that, at its best moments, verges on the poetic. Chaitanya Sambrani, ART AsiaPacific (Australia), Issue 30, 2001.

Teachings of Lord Caitanya

Author : His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Publisher : The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust
ISBN 13 : 9171495436
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book Teachings of Lord Caitanya written by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and published by The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust. This book was released on with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Summary Study of Sri Chaitanya-charitamrita Taking the role of His own devotee, Lord Sri Krishna appeared as Sri Krishna Chaitanya about five centuries ago in Bengal, India, and began a great social and spiritual revolution that has profoundly affected the lives of millions worldwide. His conversations with the great scholars, kings, and mystics of the day form the basis of Teachings of Lord Chaitanya.

Classified Catalogue Code

Author : S. R. Ranganathan
Publisher : Ess Ess Publication
ISBN 13 : 9788170004943
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Classified Catalogue Code written by S. R. Ranganathan and published by Ess Ess Publication. This book was released on 2006-08-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The works of the renowned Dr. Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan - considered the father of library science in India - cover certain facets of library and information science. These library science classics - reprinted by Ess Ess Publications - make Dr. S.R. Ranganathan's work available to the current generation of librarians.

Truth and Beauty

Author : S. Chandrasekhar
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022616277X
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Truth and Beauty written by S. Chandrasekhar and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What a splendid book! Reading it is a joy, and for me, at least, continuing reading it became compulsive. . . . Chandrasekhar is a distinguished astrophysicist and every one of the lectures bears the hallmark of all his work: precision, thoroughness, lucidity."—Sir Hermann Bondi, Nature The late S. Chandrasekhar was best known for his discovery of the upper limit to the mass of a white dwarf star, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983. He was the author of many books, including The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes and, most recently, Newton's Principia for the Common Reader.

A Quest for Perspectives

Author : Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 1860942083
Total Pages : 1449 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book A Quest for Perspectives written by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2001 with total page 1449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This invaluable book presents selected papers of S Chandrasekhar, co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1983 and a scientific giant well known for his prolific and monumental contributions to astrophysics, physics and applied mathematics. The reader will find here most of Chandrasekhar's articles that led to major developments in various areas of physics and astrophysics. There are also articles of a popular and historical nature, as well as some hitherto unpublished material based on Chandrasekhar's talks at conferences. Each section of the book contains annotations by the editor.

Tantrasaṅgraha of Nīlakaṇṭha Somayājī

Author : K. Ramasubramanian
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0857290363
Total Pages : 631 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book Tantrasaṅgraha of Nīlakaṇṭha Somayājī written by K. Ramasubramanian and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tantrasangraha, composed by the renowned Kerala astronomer Nīlakantha Somayājī (c.1444-1545 AD) ranks along with Āryabhatīya of Āryabhata and Siddhāntaśiromani of Bhāskarācārya as one of the major works which significantly influenced further work on astronomy in India. One of the distinguishing features is the introduction of a major revision of the traditional Indian planetary model. Nīlakantha arrived at a unified theory of planetary latitudes and a better formulation of the equation of centre for the interior planets (Mercury and Venus) than was previously available. In preparing the translation and explanatory notes, K. Ramasubramanian and M. S. Sriram have used authentic Sanskrit editions of Tantrasangraha by Surand Kunjan Pillai and K V Sarma. All verses have been translated into English, which have been supplemented with detailed explanations including all necessary mathematical relations, illustrative examples, figures and tables using modern mathematical notation.

Islamicate Cultures of Bombay Cinema

Author : Ira Bhaskar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788189487539
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Islamicate Cultures of Bombay Cinema written by Ira Bhaskar and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the Islamicate cultures that richly inform Bombay cinema. These cultures are imagined forms of the past and therefore a contested site of histories and identities. Yet they also form a culturally potent and aesthetically fertile reservoir of images and idioms through which Muslim communities are represented and represent themselves. Islamicate influences inform the language, poetry, music, ideas, and even the characteristic emotional responses elicited by Bombay cinema in general; however, the authors argue that it is in the three genre forms of The Muslim Historical. The Muslim Courtesan Film and The Muslim Social that these cultures are concentrated and distilled into precise iconographic, performative and narrative idioms. Furthermore, the authors argue that it is through these three genres, and their critical re-working by New Wave filmmakers, that social and historical significance is attributed to Muslim cultures for Muslims and non-Muslims alike. Ira Bhaskar is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Richard Allen is Professor and Chair of Cinema Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.