Cosmology / Steven Weinberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weinberg, Steven, 1933-2021, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cosmology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (612 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-168945-9

1-281-92528-4

9786611925284

0-19-152360-7

OCLC:

476240964