Cosmology (book)

Textbook by Steven Weinberg

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Cosmology

Author| Steven Weinberg
Language| English
Subjects| Modern Physics, Cosmology
Publisher| Oxford University Press
Publication place| United States

Published in English

| 2008 (1st edition)
2014 (reprint)
Media type| Print
Pages| 593
ISBN| 978-0-19-852682-7
OCLC| 182779803

Cosmology (2008) is a textbook about cosmology by American physicist Steven Weinberg. The textbook is intended for final-year physics undergraduates or first-year graduate students.[1] The book is a successor to Weinberg's 1972 textbook Gravitation and Cosmology.[2][3]

## Summary

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> Weinberg has cast his gaze over the vast terrain that cosmology has become since 1972, and his new work ranges from early-universe field and string theory, through inflation and phase transitions, Big Bang nucleosynthesis, and the decoupling of the microwave background radiation, and forward to the nonlinear era of the dissipative formation of galaxies and their large-scale clustering into an interconnected cosmic web.[2]

## Chapters

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* 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

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## References

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1. ^ Silk, Joseph (2008). "Review of Cosmology by Steven Weinberg". Classical and Quantum Gravity. 25 (22): 229003. doi:10.1088/0264-9381/25/22/229003. S2CID 250911392.
2. ^ a b Bond, J. Richard (2009). "Review of Cosmology by Steven Weinberg". Physics Today. 62 (6): 50–51\. doi:10.1063/1.3156334.
3. ^ Wagoner, Robert V. (1973). "Review of Gravitation and Cosmology: Principles and Applications of the General Theory of Relativity by Steven Weinberg". Physics Today. 26 (6): 57–58\. Bibcode:1973PhT....26f..57W. doi:10.1063/1.3128097.

## External links

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* Weinberg, Steven (2008). Cosmology. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198526827.

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