{"product_id":"truth-and-beauty-s-chandrasekhar-9780226100876","title":"Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science","description":"\"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, \u003ci\u003eNature\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe late S. Chandrasekhar was best known for his discovery of the upper \u003cbr\u003elimit to the mass of a white dwarf star, for which he received the Nobel \u003cbr\u003ePrize in Physics in 1983. He was the author of many books, including \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Mathematical Theory of Black Holes\u003c\/i\u003e and, most recently, \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNewton's Principia for the Common Reader. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e S. Chandrasekhar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226100871\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226100876\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/1990\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 180\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.05h x 6.11w x 0.48d","brand":"S. Chandrasekhar","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43913420341503,"sku":"9780226100876","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_067beec4-baff-4bd4-b9b6-408ccfe1e072.jpg?v=1680620311","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/truth-and-beauty-s-chandrasekhar-9780226100876","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}