The Universe
Poincaré Seminar 2015
Editors: Duplantier, Bertrand, Rivasseau, Vincent (Eds.)
Free Preview- Provides a unique perspective on some of the most active areas in astrophysics
- Gives a deep perspective on the Big-Bang theory by Jean-Philippe Uzan
- Includes the detailed description of 3 major experimental breakthroughs
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- About this book
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This volume provides a detailed description of some of the most active areas in astrophysics from the largest scales probed by the Planck satellite to massive black holes that lie at the heart of galaxies and up to the much awaited but stunning discovery of thousands of exoplanets. It contains the following chapters:
• Jean-Philippe UZAN, The Big-Bang Theory: Construction, Evolution and Status• Jean-Loup PUGET, The Planck Mission and the Cosmic Microwave Background
• Reinhard GENZEL, Massive Black Holes: Evidence, Demographics and Cosmic Evolution
• Arnaud CASSAN, New Worlds Ahead: The Discovery of Exoplanets
Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics “for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy’”, alongside Roger Penrose “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity”. The book corresponds to the twentieth Poincaré Seminar, held on November 21, 2015, at Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris.
Originally written as lectures to a broad scientific audience, these four chapters are of high value and will be of general interest to astrophysicists, physicists, mathematicians and historians.
- Table of contents (4 chapters)
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The Big-Bang Theory: Construction, Evolution and Status
Pages 1-72
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The Planck Mission and the Cosmic Microwave Background
Pages 73-92
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Massive Black Holes: Evidence, Demographics and Cosmic Evolution
Pages 93-119
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New Worlds Ahead: The Discovery of Exoplanets
Pages 121-147
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Universe
- Book Subtitle
- Poincaré Seminar 2015
- Editors
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- Bertrand Duplantier
- Vincent Rivasseau
- Series Title
- Progress in Mathematical Physics
- Series Volume
- 76
- Copyright
- 2021
- Publisher
- Birkhäuser Basel
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-67392-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-67392-5
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-67391-8
- Series ISSN
- 1544-9998
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 147
- Topics
