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Weinberg, Steven 1933-

Cosmology Steven Weinberg - 1 recurso en línea (XVIII, 593 páginas) - EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete .

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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;

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. - ;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

ISBN: 9780191523601 0191523607

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Cosmología

LC Class. No.: QB981 / 2008 EB