A Quest for Perspectives: Selected Works of S. Chandrasekhar: With Commentary (Volume 1)

Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
I. Early Years; The Theory of White Dwarfs and Stellar Interiors......Page 12
The Compton Scattering and the New Statistics......Page 17
The Maximum Mass of Ideal White Dwarfs......Page 24
Some Remarks on the State of Matter in the Interior of Stars......Page 26
The Highly Collapsed Configurations of a Stellar Mass (second paper)......Page 33
Stellar Configurations with Degenerate Cores......Page 52
Discussion of Papers 4 and 5 by A.S. Eddington and E.A. Milne......Page 87
Stellar Configurations with Degenerate Cores (second paper)......Page 91
The White Dwarfs and Their Importance for Theories of Stellar Evolution......Page 109
The Internal Constitution of the Stars......Page 119
The Cosmological Constants......Page 153
II. Radiative Transfer, the Polarization of the Sunlit Sky, and the Negative Ion of Hydrogen......Page 154
Radiative Transfer - A Personal Account......Page 158
The Formation of Absorption Lines in a Moving Atmosphere......Page 189
The Transfer of Radiation in Stellar Atmospheres......Page 208
The Illumination and the Polarization of the Sunlit Sky On Rayleigh Scattering......Page 279
Some Remarks on the Negative Hydrogen Ion and Its Absorption Coefficient......Page 291
On the Continuous Absorption Coefficient of the Negative Hydrogen Ion......Page 296
The Continuous Spectrum of the Sun and the Stars......Page 305
III. Stochastic and Statistical Problems in Astronomy......Page 318
Stochastic Problems in Physics and Astronomy......Page 321
A Statistical Theory of Stellar Encounters......Page 410
New Methods in Stellar Dynamics......Page 424
The Theory of the Fluctuations in Brightness of the Milky Way. I......Page 454
IV Turbulence and Hydromagnetic Problems in Astrophysics......Page 468
On Heisenberg's Elementary Theory of Turbulence......Page 471
Turbulence - A Physical Theory of Astrophysical Interest......Page 485
Some Aspects of the Statistical Theory of Turbulence......Page 496
Magnetic Fields in Spiral Arms......Page 513
Problems of Gravitational Stability in the Presence of a Magnetic Field......Page 516
V. Hydrodynamic and Hydromagnetic Stability......Page 542
The Stability of Viscous Flow Between Rotating Cylinders in the Presence of a Magnetic Field......Page 545
The Stability of Viscous Flow Between Rotating Cylinders in the Presence of a Radial Temperature Gradient......Page 562
The Hydrodynamic Stability of Helium II Between Rotating Cylinders. I......Page 589
The Hydrodynamic Stability of Helium II Between Rotating Cylinders. II......Page 609
Thermal Convection......Page 617
The Thermodynamics of Thermal Instability in Liquids......Page 646
Variational Methods in Hydrodynamics......Page 658