Description "What a splendid book Reading it is a joy, and for me, at least, continuing reading it became compulsive.
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 Phy.
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. . . .
Description "What a splendid book Reading it is a joy, and for me, at least, continuing reading it became compulsive