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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 deals chiefly with the isotropic and homogeneous average universe; the second part concentrates on the departures from the average universe. Throughout the book the author
presents detailed analytic calculations of cosmological phenomena, rather than just report results obtained elsewhere by numerical computation. The book is up to date, and gives detailed accounts of topics such as recombination, microwave background polarization, leptogenesis, gravitational lensing,
structure formation, and multifield inflation, that are usually treated superficially if at all in treatises on cosmology. Copious references to current research literature are supplied. Appendices include a brief introduction to general relativity, and a detailed derivation of the Boltzmann equation for photons and neutrinos used in calculations of cosmological evolution. Also provided is an assortment of problems.

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978-0198526827
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Illustrated
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OUP Oxford
Publicatiedatum

21 februari 2008
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Engels
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"A technical tour de force for the intrepid graduate student, Weinberg's new book will greatly appeal to particle physicists tooling up in cosmology and be an indispensable source for the practitioner."--Physics Today

"A monumental book written by a leading authority in particle physics and cosmology. Since publication of Weinberg's famous book Gravitation and Cosmology 35 years ago, there has been a real revolution both in cosmological theory and observations. A major effort of a great expert has been required to summarize the main developments in one book, and to make this presentation both highly accurate and accessible. This book will be greatly appreciated by a broad readership, ranging from students who just enter the field to experts in modern cosmology. It should be on the desk of every actively working cosmologist."--Andrei Linde, Stanford University

"Time is right for a survey of the physics of what has become a large and well-developed subject. Weinberg has done it, in an impressive fashion. He presents a full and careful assessment of the broad range of physics of modern cosmology, from the tools for measurements of the structure and evolution of the universe we see around us to the puzzles of dark matter and dark energy and the ideas about what the universe was like in the remote past, before it could have been described by the well-tested part of the theory."--Jim Peebles, Princeton University

"This book tackles the main events of today's cosmology: cosmic acceleration observed with supernovae, the exquisite structure of the cosmic microwave background, and the evidence for dark matter. Weinberg pays close attention to the historical development and summarizes the observations with care. He brings deep knowledge of the underlying physics and weaves these threads together into a rich text that will be of great value to astronomers and physicists. The first half of this book is a wonderful introduction to cosmology, suitable for a graduate course or for someone coming into the field from a neighboring region of the scientific forest. The second half is an original development of the theory for the growth of inhomogeneities in the Universe. Everyone who works on cosmology will find something to learn in this book.--Robert P. Kirshner, Harvard University

"Nobel laureate, Steven Weinberg, is known not only for his exceptional contribution to modern physics, but also for his incomparable pen...With his unsurpassed ability to explain even the most difficult mathematical and conceptual steps with a few strokes of his pen, Weinberg takes the reader from the basics of cosmological kinetics and dynamics...to advanced topics."--Mathematical Reviews

Over de auteur

Professor Steven Weinberg
Jack S. Josey-Welch Foundation Chair in Science and Regental Professor and Director, Theory Research Group
Department of Physics
University of Texas at Austin

Nobel Prize in Physics, 1979

National Medal of Science, 1991

Benjamin Franklin Prize, American Philosophical Society, 2004

Member, U. S. National Academy of Sciences

Foreign Member, Royal Society of London

Honorary Member, Royal Irish Academy

Member, American Philosophical Society

Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

J. Robert Oppenheimer Prize, 1973

Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, 1977 Earned degrees

A.B., Cornell University, 1954
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1957

Honorary degrees

Harvard University, A.M., 1973
Knox College, D.Sc., 1978
University of Chicago, Sc.D., 1978
University of Rochester, Sc.D., l979
Yale University, Sc.D., 1979
City University of New York, Sc.D., 1980
Clark University, Sc.D., 1982
Dartmouth College, Sc.D., 1984
Weizmann Institute, Ph.D. Hon.Caus., 1985
Washington College, D.Litt., 1985
Columbia University, Sc.D., 1990
University of Salamanca, Sc.D., 1992
University of Padua, Ph.D. Hon.Caus., 1992
University of Barcelona, Sc.D., 1996
Bates College, Sc. D., 2002
McGill University, Sc. D., 2003
University of Waterloo, Sc. D., 2004

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B005NKFB9M
Uitgever ‏ : ‎ OUP Oxford; Illustrated editie (21 februari 2008)
Taal ‏ : ‎ Engels
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Flavio

Libro grandioso!

Beoordeeld in Italië op 7 februari 2022

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Testo fondamentale, ottima edizione. Compravendita perfetta.

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Mauro Mauler

Excelente.

Beoordeeld in Brazilië op 19 september 2020

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O livro é excelente. Um dos melhores sobre o assunto.

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Gary

A concentration on analytic calculations, not on highly speculative material

Beoordeeld in de Verenigde Staten op 21 april 2018

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Here I am in the year 2018. Cosmology, the monograph authored by Steven Weinberg, is the last book on the topic I purchased and studied. That purchase was made 2008. Between then and now (between 2008 and 2018) we have witnessed a plethora of speculation, the multiverse being one example. I confess, such speculation (multiverse and others) had turned me off to the topic. I revel in comparison of experimental numbers to theoretical predictions. Thus, my affinity for two classics of Cosmology: Physical Cosmology (James Peebles) and Cosmology (Steven Weinberg). Why is that so ? Numbers from experiment weighed against theoretical predictions are the leitmotif of the two books. Steven Weinberg has written another winning exposition.
(1) Weinberg begins with "distance indicators." Read: "the agreement between the values of Hubble Constant provided by these very different methods will serve to validate the cosmological assumptions made in the analysis of cosmic microwave background." (page 31). Before "turning to dynamical theory" we are reminded of the variety of different measures of distance (page 33). Dynamical theory alerts the reader to the importance of General Relativity for the subject. Read: "Lorentz invariance requires that in locally inertial coordinate systems the energy-momentum tensor of the vacuum must be proportional to the Minkowski metric." (page 40). This is your first view of Vacuum Energy.
(2) We remain in chapter one: Expansion of the Universe. Quintessence..."a time-varying vacuum energy" (page 89). Nearly ten pages of exposition where "it may be illuminating to work out the consequences of this one specific model of quintessence." Excellent Pedagogy !
(3) Second Chapter--Cosmic Microwave Radiation Background. This is first brush with the topic, it recurs, time and time again. Grab one of those Modern Physics textbooks and brush-up on "blackbody radiation." (Richtmyer and Kennard). Return to Steven Weinberg for more specialized applications--anisotropies and fluctuations--these will be analyzed. Fourier integrals, Legendre polynomials, Gaussian distributions, all of that and more will be utilized. Conclude with a comparison between experiment and theory.
(4) Before reading chapter three--Early Universe--study Weinberg's 1977 book, The First Three Minutes. Then, return. Now, avail yourself of the fine exposition regards "Cold Dark Matter" (page 185). Read: "if the particles that make up most of the mass of the Universe are not Baryons, what are they ? "Wimps, Supersymmetry and Axions, these things--and more--will occupy the next fifteen pages...as prelude to....
(5) Inflation. Read: "the details of inflation are unknown...it has had one significant experimental success, a prediction of some of the properties of the fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background and large-scale structure." (page 202). Learn of Flatness ("least convincing argument for inflation"), Horizons ("inflation provides an explanation") and Monopoles.
(6) Revisit fluctuations. General relativity (field equations) is front-and-center. Revisit Fourier analysis and "Whatever happens during Inflation, if the Universe subsequently spends sufficient time in a state of local thermal equilibrium with no non-zero conserved quantities, then the perturbations become adiabatic--and, they remain adiabatic subsequently--even when the conditions of thermal equilibrium are no longer satisfied." That statement says a lot ! The ensuing chapter six will provide more details of cosmological fluctuations. Before study of chapter six, a refresher of hydrodynamic, kinetic and Boltzmann equations proves useful.
(7) Next, a tough chapter seven. The chapter revisits the anisotropies in the cosmic background radiation. Read: "The general agreement of theory and observation, both for microwave background anisotropies alone and for background anisotropies in conjunction with other observations, goes far to confirm the general assumptions of the cosmological model, including cold dark matter and dark energy, that we have been using." (page 362). A nice thirty-page exposition on polarization concludes the chapter: "polarization due to scattering by free electrons" which may become more important "in revealing the effects of gravitational waves produced during inflation." (pages 370-400).
(8) Read from chapter nine, Gravitational Lenses: "For cosmology, the most promising application of gravitational lenses probably lies in surveys of weak lensing, the study of distortion of distant galaxies by numerous small deflections of light as it passes from galaxies to us through a slightly inhomogeneous distribution of matter.
(9) The final chapter ten revisits fluctuations. Or, more accurately, inflation as the origin of cosmological fluctuations. Read: "Why should the action of gravitation contain only the Einstein term, and not other generally covariant terms with more than two derivatives of the metric ? And, why should the action of the standard electroweak model or quantum chromodynamics contain only renormalizable terms ? " Learn about it in these pages.
(10) There are appendices: one is survey of general relativity (eighteen pages) and Newtonian cosmology. Another (appendix H) outlines material needed for understanding of Boltzmann equation (as prelude to chapter six and seven). The Cosmology text of Weinberg was my latest serious look into cosmology.
No matter what the future holds, because Weinberg presents experimental numbers alongside theoretical models, his book remains invaluable. Without such interplay between experiment and theory, I am hard-pressed to call the subject physics.

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Toledo

Excellent book and excellent printing quality

Beoordeeld in Mexico op 12 september 2018

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We have to recognize the books with excellent printing quality features. This is one!!! A little bit expensive though it surely deserves the effort.

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William Shaw

Excellent presentation of contemporary cosmology

Beoordeeld in Canada op 9 oktober 2016

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Another great book by Steven Weinberg. A very thorough and methodical presentation with heaps of detailed explanations. Weinberg incorporated all the latest observational data and research up to the date of publication.

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