000			01621nam a22001937a 4500
005			20250115161237.0
020			_a9780198845287
082			_a523.1/ _bWEI
100			_aWeinberg,S.
245			_aCosmology
250			_a1
260			_aNew Delhi _bIndia Oxford University Press _c2021
300			_axix,593 _ePB
500			_aIN-239 _b2024-07-08
505			_aCosmology
520			_aThis 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 licensing, 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.
650			_aPhysics
942			_cBK _01
999			_c224929 _d224929