Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

1910–1995 · Indian-American astrophysicist

Topics: creativity, mathematics

• It is, indeed an incredible fact that what the human mind, at its deepest and most profound, perceives as beautiful finds its realization in external nature.… What is intelligible is also beautiful.

  — Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

• All the standard equations of mathematical physics can be separated and solved in Kerr geometry.

  — Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar