Selected Papers

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.

Conceived by Chandrasekhar as a supplement to his "Selected Papers", this volume begins with eight papers he wrote with Valeria Ferrari on the non-radial oscillations of stars.Conceived by Chandrasekhar as a supplement to his "Selected Papers", this volume begins with eight papers he wrote with Valeria Ferrari on the non-radial oscillations of stars. It then explores some of the themes addressed in "Truth and Beauty", with meditations on the aesthetics of science and the world it examines.