A cosmic and mathematical standpoint

Moving away from the terrestrial and anthropological context, it is immediately clear from the graph in Fig. 4.1 that hydrogen (Z = 1) and helium (Z = 2) are 

One day in 1978, 1 asked Willy (William Fowler) what roles he and Fred Hoyle had played in the marvellous theory of stellar nucleosynthesis which had set the stage for three generations of scientists. Finding the question difficult, he did not reply immediately, but several years later brought to my attention the scrupulously observed chronological description of the facts reproduced below. 

In the following section, 1 summarise the contents of the letter in which William Fowler replied to my query. He began by recommending articles written 

The letter may be considered as a genealogical document. Jean Audouze, Elisabeth Vangioni-Flam and myself belong to this line of descent. Hubert Reeves is the link between the pioneers and the current generation which is already preparing the succession.  

What then was the sequence of events that led to the publication of B HF They may be summarised chronologically as follows. 

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