Introduction To Cosmology

The Third Edition of the hugely successful Introduction to Cosmology provides aconcise authoritative study of cosmology at an introductory level. Startingfrom e... » 

The Third Edition of the hugely successful Introduction to Cosmology provides aconcise authoritative study of cosmology at an introductory level. Startingfrom elementary principles and the history of cosmology the text carefullyguides the student on to curved spacetimes general relativity black holescosmological models particles and symmetries and phase transitions.Extensively revised this latest edition includes broader and updated coverageof distance measures gravitational lensing and waves dark energy andquintessence the thermal history of the Universe inflation large scalestructure formation and the cosmological coincidenceproblem. Illustratedthroughout and comprehensively referenced with problems at the end of eachchapter. Includes more material on observational astrophysics and expandedsections on astrophysical phenomena. Latest observational results from theWMAP satellite and the 2 degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey. «