Cosmology

Produktbeschreibung

This is a uniquely comprehensive and detailed treatment of the theoretical and observational foundations of modern cosmology, by a Nobel Laureate in Physics. It gives up-to-date and self contained accounts of the theories and observations that have made the past few decades a golden age of cosmology. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: The Expansion of the Universe
2: The Cosmic Microwave Radiation Background
3: The Early Universe
4: Inflation
5: General Theory of Cosmological Fluctuations
6: Evolution of Cosmological Fluctuations
7: Anisotropies in the Microwave Sky
8: The Growth of Structure
9: Gravitational Lensing
10: Fluctuations from Inflation
Appendices
A: Some Useful Numbers
B: Review of General Relativity
C: Energy Transfer Between Radiation and Electrons
D: The Ergodic Theorem
E: Gaussian Distributions
F: Newtonian Cosmology
G: Photon Polarization
H: The Relativistic Boltzmann Equation
Notation
Glossary of Symbols
Assorted Problems 

Kritik

A stimulating source of intellectual excitement. [...] While the relevant technical aspects of the presentation can only be fully appreciated after a careful reading, a clear message emerges with vigour after the first reading: atomic physics, nuclear physics, field theory, high-energy physics and general relativity all come together in the description of our universe. In other words, Cosmology provides a vivid example of the basic unity of physics, which is something to bear in mind during the decades to come. CERN Courier 

Autoreninfo

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