<div>"What a splendid book! Reading it is a joy, and for me, at least, continuing reading it became compulsive. . . . Chandrasekhar is a distinguished astrophysicist and every one of the lectures bears the hallmark of all his work: precision, thoroughness, lucidity."--Sir Hermann Bondi, <i>Nature</i><br><br>The late S. Chandrasekhar was best known for his discovery of the upper <br>limit to the mass of a white dwarf star, for which he received the Nobel <br>Prize in Physics in 1983. He was the author of many books, including <br><i>The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes</i> and, most recently, <br><i>Newton's Principia for the Common Reader</i>.<br><br><br><br></div>