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Biographical Note

This new Dover edition, first published in 1960, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of *Principles of Stellar Dynamics* as originally published in 1942 by the University of Chicago Press. The following articles are also included and are unabridged and unaltered:

*Dynamical Friction*, Parts I and II, as originally published in 1943 by *The Astrophysical Journal*, Volume 97, No. 2.

*Dynamical Friction*, Part III, as originally published in 1943 by *The Astrophysical Journal*, Volume 98, No. 1.

*New Methods in Stellar Dynamics* as originally published in 1943 by the *Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences*, Volume XLV, Article 3. It is reprinted by the kind permission of the New York Academy of Sciences.

This is one of the classical books on star systems written by a Nobel prize winning astrophysicist. While somewhat dated now, this book applies classical dynamics to stellar dynamics, the distribution of matter and motion in star systems. This can be in our Galaxy, in external galaxies and in star clusters. This book provides a heavily mathematical orientation to the problem.

In addition to the basic text, two later papers by Dr. Chandrasekhar are reprinted from the technical journals in which they first appeared.