Scientific Autobiography, A: S ChandrasekharKameshwar C Wali World Scientific, 4 de gen. 2011 - 296 pàgines 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. |
Continguts
I A History of My Papers on Radiative Equilibrium 19431948 | 3 |
II Turbulence Hydromagnetism 19481960 | 21 |
III The Development of the Virial Method and Ellipsoidal Figures of Equilibrium 19601970 | 55 |
IV General Relativity 19621969 | 75 |
V The Fallow Period 19701974 | 91 |
VI General Relativity Ryerson Lecture Separation of Dirac Equation January 1975August 1977 | 109 |
VII General Relativity KerrNewman Perturbations August 1977December 1978 | 127 |
VIII 1979 A Year of Failures and of Obligations | 139 |
1982 a Year that Passed | 185 |
XI The Beginning of the End 19831985 | 187 |
XII Continued Efforts I September 1985May 1987 | 199 |
XIII Continued Efforts II May 1987September 1989 | 213 |
XIV Continued Efforts III September 1989October 1991 | 231 |
XV Continued Efforts IV November 1991December 1994 | 251 |
Notes Comments by Kameshwar C Wali | 259 |
The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes | 151 |
Frases i termes més freqüents
April Astronomy Astrophysical Journal August basic Basilis became clear calculations Chapter coefficients colliding waves completed December Dedekind derived Dirac’s equation discussion Donna earlier Einstein Einstein–Maxwell ellipsoids equations governing equilibrium Ernst equation error February final flux integral functions geodesies gravitational perturbations gravitational radiation gravitational waves Hydrodynamic hydromagnetic idea identities India instability intentionally left blank January July June Kerr black hole Kerr geometry Kerr metric Kerr–Newman later Lebovitz lecture linearized March Mathematical matter months Newman–Penrose equations Newtonian non-radial oscillations Norman November October paper Penrose Physics polar post-Newtonian approximation Principia problem Proc pseudo-tensor quasi-normal modes realized reduction Reissner–Nordström black holes relation relativity Returning to Chicago Ricci identities Roger Penrose rotating Royal Society Schwarzschild Schwarzschild black hole sent September solution solved space-time stability stars summer talk tensor Teukolsky theory thought tions turbulence Valeria Ferrari variational principle virial theorem week Weyl Weyl scalars writing written wrote Xanthopoulos