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By Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (auth.), Edward A. Spiegel (eds.)

In January 1937, Nobel laureate in Physics Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was once recruited to the collage of Chicago. He was once to stay there for his complete profession, changing into Morton D. Hull exotic carrier Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics in 1952 and achieving emeritus prestige in 1985. this is often the place his then pupil Ed Spiegel met him through the summer season of 1954, attended his lectures on turbulence and jotted down the notes in hand. His lectures had a twofold function: they not just supplied a truly simple creation to a few facets of the topic for newbies, additionally they allowed Chandra to arrange his ideas in training to formulating his assault at the statistical challenge of homogeneous turbulence. After every one lecture Ed Spiegel transcribed the notes and stuffed within the information of the derivations that Chandrasekhar had no longer incorporated, attempting to guard the spirit of his presentation or even including a few of his aspect comments. The lectures have been really impromptu and the notes as provided listed below are as they have been set down initially in 1954. Now they're being made mostly on hand for Chandrasekhar’s centennial.

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