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UNINA9910961331503321 |
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Autore |
Weinberg Steven <1933-2021.> |
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Titolo |
Cosmology / / Steven Weinberg |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-168945-9 |
1-281-92528-4 |
9786611925284 |
0-19-152360-7 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (612 p.) |
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Collana |
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Oxford scholarship online |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Formerly CIP. |
Previously issued in print: 2008. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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