Mathematician:Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Mathematician

Indian-American astrophysicist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics for theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars.

Nationality

Indian-American

History

• Born: 19 October 1910 in Lahore, Punjab, British India (present-day Punjab, Pakistan)

Theorems and Definitions

• Chandrasekhar Limit
• Chandrasekhar Number
• Chandrasekhar Friction
• Chandrasekhar-Kendall Function (with Peter C. Kendall)
• Chandrasekhar's H-Function
• Emden-Chandrasekhar Equation (with Jacob Robert Emden)
• Chandrasekhar-Page Equations (with Don Nelson Page)
• Chandrasekhar Tensor
• Chandrasekhar Virial Equations
• Batchelor-Chandrasekhar Equation (with George Keith Batchelor)
• Schönberg-Chandrasekhar Limit (with Mario Schönberg)
• Chandrasekhar's White Dwarf Equation
• Chandrasekhar Polarization
• Chandrasekhar's X- and Y-Function
• Davis-Chandrasekhar-Fermi Method (with Leverett Davis Jr and Enrico Fermi)

Publications

• 1939: An Introduction to the Study of Stellar Structure

Also known as

Chandrasekhar was his given name, Subrahmanyan his patronymic.

Known throughout his life as Chandra

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive