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Cosmology | 
| Author: Steven Weinberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Category: Book
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Pages: 544
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Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 6.9 x 1.5
ISBN: 0198526822
Dewey Decimal Number: 523.1
EAN: 9780198526827
ASIN: 0198526822
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Product Description
This book is unique in the detailed, self-contained, and comprehensive treatment that it gives to the ideas and formulas that are used and tested in modern cosmological research. It divides into two parts, each of which provides enough material for a one-semester graduate course. The first
part deals chiefly with the isotropic and homogeneous average universe; the second part concentrates on the departures from the average universe. Throughout the book the author presents detailed analytic calculations of cosmological phenomena, rather than just report results obtained elsewhere by
numerical computation. The book is up to date, and gives detailed accounts of topics such as recombination, microwave background polarization, leptogenesis, gravitational lensing, structure formation, and multifield inflation, that are usually treated superficially if at all in treatises on
cosmology. Copious references to current research literature are supplied. Appendices include a brief introduction to general relativity, and a detailed derivation of the Boltzmann equation for photons and neutrinos used in calculations of cosmological evolution. Also provided is an assortment of
problems.
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Table of Contents May 3, 2008
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This isn't a review, but here's the table of contents from the publisher's webpage:
1. The Expansion of the Universe
2. The Cosmic Microwave Radiation Background
3. The Early Universe
4. Inflation
5. General Theory of Cosmological Fluctuations
6. Evolution of Cosmological Fluctuations
7. Anisotropies in the Microwave Sky
8. The Growth of Structure
9. Gravitational Lensing
10. Fluctuations from Inflation
Appendices
A. Some Useful Numbers
B. Review of General Relativity
C. Energy Transfer Between Radiation and Electrons
D. The Ergodic Theorem
E. Gaussian Distributions
F. Newtonian Cosmology
G. Photon Polarization
H. The Relativistic Boltzmann Equation
Notation
Glossary of Symbols
Assorted Problems
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