Cosmology

By Michael Rowan-Robinson and Rowan Robinson

Book Overview

This is a substantially revised and updates new edition of a classic introductory textbook. Although there are a wealth of cosmology texts at postgraduate level, Cosmology remains the classic... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198518382
• ISBN13: 9780198518389
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.

Customer Reviews

An excellent introduction

When I was teaching high-school physics, a group of motivated students asked me to teach them some astronomy and cosmology. So I taught them the basics of astronomy from a Dutch book, and chose Rowan-Robinson's book as the textbook for the cosmology part. I chose it because of its modest size and lenght, its relatively recent publication date and its accessibility. Nevertheless, trying to teach 17-year-olds about relativity and such is an ambitious task, and I had my doubts whether or not the book was up to it. It was. Apart from having to make various derivations more explicit, the book proved to be self-contained and was highly useful. Therefore I strongly recommend it to anybody who's interested in modern cosmology, but has had no prior exposure to it. This is a great book to learn from!