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DescriptionThis 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.About the AuthorProfessor Steven WeinbergJack S. Josey-Welch Foundation Chair in Science and Regental Professor and Director, Theory Research GroupDepartment of PhysicsUniversity 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, 1954Ph.D., Princeton University, 1957 Honorary degrees Harvard University, A.M., 1973Knox College, D.Sc., 1978University of Chicago, Sc.D., 1978University of Rochester, Sc.D., l979Yale University, Sc.D., 1979City University of New York, Sc.D., 1980Clark University, Sc.D., 1982Dartmouth College, Sc.D., 1984Weizmann Institute, Ph.D. Hon.Caus., 1985Washington College, D.Litt., 1985Columbia University, Sc.D., 1990University of Salamanca, Sc.D., 1992University of Padua, Ph.D. Hon.Caus., 1992University of Barcelona, Sc.D., 1996Bates College, Sc. D., 2002McGill University, Sc. D., 2003University of Waterloo, Sc. D., 2004
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