Overview
- New data - mostly WMAP5years and Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from SDSS
- Offers end-of-chapter exercises and a solution manual on springer.com
- All relevant experiments explained and reported
- Well-balanced introduction without too much mathematics
- Evolved from Ecole Polytechnique's outstanding educational program
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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From the reviews:
"The book provides a comprehensive and thorough explication of current cosmology at a level appropriate for a beginning graduate student or an advanced and motivated undergraduate. It covers all relevant concepts of cosmology and pertinent general relativity and contains a significant number of exercises, with solutions to a sample set. This book clearly is the result of the refining of notes from a course on cosmology… It provides a summary of current observations and mathematical underpinnings of the physical principles. This is an extremely valuable contribution in the field, which has been changing rapidly as a result of new technology and new theoretical motivations from the related field of high-energy physics… This book provides a good look at the intellectual effort and a solid foundation for the new discoveries soon to come." (Physics Today, September 2002)
"All these exciting developments are laid out in a very accessible form in this textbookespecially written for senior undergraduates or graduates from various backgrounds. It deals in a very nice and explicit form with the basic ideas of cosmology and general relativity (...). This is a fine textbook and would be very enjoyable for private study. (The Physicist, 2001)
From the reviews of the second edition:
“Rich, a cosmologist at CEA, a French technological research organization, provides a systematic exposition of modern cosmological models and observations, written in a clear, engaging style that does not assume prior knowledge of the subject. … It would make an excellent advanced undergraduate or first-year graduate textbook, or a good reference for anyone wanting a clear introduction to the ideas of modern cosmology. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers/faculty in the physical sciences; professionals/practitioners.” (R. L. Mutel, Choice, Vol. 47 (11), August, 2010)
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Book Title: Fundamentals of Cosmology
Authors: James Rich
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02800-7
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-02799-4Published: 09 February 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-42574-5Published: 11 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-02800-7Published: 03 December 2009
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: IX, 328
Topics: Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory, Astronomy, Observations and Techniques