“Brutalism Friday”

“Rusty Nail Viewing Platform,” by architect Stefan Giers, 2007-2008. Senftenberg, Germany.
Photo: Stefano Perego, George Kroustallis

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Mathematician Karl Weierstrass was born #OTD, Halloween, in 1815.

The fools at The Academy all said he was mad, but in 1872 he announced that he had succeeded in creating a ~monster~.

Image: Smithsonian Institution Libraries

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was born #OTD in 1910. He established an upper limit on the mass of stable white dwarf stars, and made numerous contributions to astrophysics and relativity.

Above the Chandrasekhar Limit – about 1.44 solar masses – stars eventually explode and then collapse into a neutron star or black hole.

Photo: Stephen Lewellyn / AIP