Cosmology
This is a uniquely comprehensive and detailed treatment of the theoretical and observational foundations of modern cosmology, by a Nobel Laureate in Physics. It gives up-to-date and self contained accounts of the theories and observations that have made the past few decades a golden age of cosmology...
| Main Author: | Weinberg, Steven, 1933-2021. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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| Physical Description: |
xvii, 593 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
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| Summary: |
This is a uniquely comprehensive and detailed treatment of the theoretical and observational foundations of modern cosmology, by a Nobel Laureate in Physics. It gives up-to-date and self contained accounts of the theories and observations that have made the past few decades a golden age of cosmology. |
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| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Expansion of the universe -- Cosmic microwave radiation background -- Early universe -- Inflation -- General theory of small fluctuations -- Evolution of cosmological fluctuations -- Anisotropies in the microwave sky -- Growth of structure -- Gravitational lenses -- Inflation as the origin of cosmological fluctuations. This is a uniquely comprehensive and detailed treatment of the theoretical and observational foundations of modern cosmology, by a Nobel Laureate in Physics. It gives up-to-date and self contained accounts of the theories and observations that have made the past few decades a golden age of cosmology. |
| Physical Description: |
xvii, 593 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9780198526827 0198526822 |