Fluid Flows To Black Holes: A Tribute To S Chandrasekhar On His Birth Centenary

This unique book contains a biographical portrait, accounts of Chandrasekhar''s role and impact on modern science, historical perspectives and personal reminiscences, several of which appeared in Physics Today, and reviews by leading experts in areas which Prof. Chandrasekhar pioneered. The reviews, which appeared in the Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of India, are either based on papers pre...