Cosmology

By Michael Rowan-Robinson and Rowan Robinson

Book Overview

This book offers a completely up-to-date introduction to the exciting science of cosmology. It describes the very latest discoveries that have led astronomers and physicists ever closer to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198518587
• ISBN13: 9780198518587
• Release Date: August 1981
• Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
• Weight: 0.71 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!