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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 deal...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:QB981 W4.53
Autor principal: Weinberg, Steven, 1933-
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Temas:
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The expansion of the universe
  • The cosmic microwave radiation background
  • The early universe
  • Inflation
  • General theory of small fluctuations
  • Evolution of cosmological fluctuations
  • Anisotropies in the microwave sky
  • The growth of structure
  • Gravitational lenses
  • Inflation as the origin of cosmological fluctuations.