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Record Nr.

UNINA9910961331503321

Autore

Weinberg Steven <1933-2021.>

Titolo

Cosmology / / Steven Weinberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008

ISBN

0-19-168945-9

1-281-92528-4

9786611925284

0-19-152360-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (612 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

523.1

Soggetti

Cosmology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2008.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; 1 THE EXPANSION OF THE UNIVERSE; 2 THE COSMIC MICROWAVE RADIATION BACKGROUND; 3 THE EARLY UNIVERSE; 4 INFLATION; 5 GENERAL THEORY OF SMALL FLUCTUATIONS; 6 EVOLUTION OF COSMOLOGICAL FLUCTUATIONS; 7 ANISOTROPIES IN THE MICROWAVE SKY; 8 THE GROWTH OF STRUCTURE; 9 GRAVITATIONAL LENSES; 10 INFLATION AS THE ORIGIN OF COSMOLOGICAL FLUCTUATIONS; APPENDICES; GLOSSARY OF SYMBOLS; ASSORTED PROBLEMS; AUTHOR INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

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.