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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
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"[It] is a pleasure to read and distraction to review. The book provides a comprehensive and thorough explication of current cosmology at a level appropriate for a beginning graduate student or an advanced and motivated undergraduate. It covers all relevant concepts of cosmology and pertinent general relativity and contains a significant number of exercises, with solutions to a sample set. This book clearly is the result of the refining of notes from a course on cosmology… It provides a summary of current observations and mathematical underpinnings of the physical principles. This is an extremely valuable contribution in the field, which has been changing rapidly as a result of new technology and new theoretical motivations from the related field of high-energy physics… This book provides a good look at the intellectual effort and a solid foundation for the new discoveries soon to come." (Physics Today, September 2002)
"All these exciting developments are laid out in a very accessible form in this textbook especially written for senior undergraduates or graduates from various backgrounds. It deals in a very nice and explicit form with the basic ideas of cosmology and general relativity (...). This is a fine textbook and would be very enjoyable for private study.
(The Physicist, 2001)
Authors and Affiliations
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CEA-Saclay, DAPNIA/SPP, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
James Rich
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fundamentals of Cosmology
Authors: James Rich
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04446-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2001
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-04446-9Published: 17 April 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 303
Topics: Cosmology, Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory, Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Astrophysics and Astroparticles