1943-48: A Happy Period: A History of My Papers on Radiative EquilibriumA"; 1948-60: A Period of Frustration and a Period of Grinding; 1961-69: Years of Adventure. Years of Obligation; 1970-1974: A Fallow Period. A Period of Indecision, Learning Relativity; 1975-85: Years of Effort. The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes Colliding Waves; 1985-90: The Non-Radial Oscillations of Stars in General Relativity; 1990-1995: Newton's Principia; Correspondence Between Chandra and His Father C S Ayyar, His Brother S Balakrishna and Some Other Family Members Close to Chandra; Chandra and David Shoenberg, E A Milne, A S Eddington, Leon Rosenfeld; Chandra and H N Russell, Andre Weil, George Gamow, Harlow Shaplay, John von Neuman;
The beauty and effectiveness of the book resides precisely here, it
is a personal log that follows step by step the thoughts, trials
and errors and eventually the success of Chandrasekhar's research.
-- Mathematical Reviews "Mathematical Reviews"
The book is useful to those who are going to studying Modern
Physics as well as History of Modern Physics. -- Zentralblatt MATH
"Zentralblatt MATH"
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