Cosmology

by Steven Weinberg

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198526822
• ISBN13: 9780198526827
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 616 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.6" x 9.1"