Cosmology

A Very Short Introduction
Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-19-285416-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 111 mm x 178 mm, Gewicht: 140 g

This book is a simple, non-technical introduction to cosmology, explaining what it is and what cosmologists do. Peter Coles discusses the history of the subject, the development of the Big Bang theory, and more speculative modern issues like quantum cosmology, superstrings, and dark matter.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Coles, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astrophysik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Populärwissenschaftliche Werke
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Kosmologie, Urknalltheorie
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Galaxien und Sterne
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Astrophysik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: A Brief History

- 2: Einstein and All That

- 3: The Big Bang

- 4: In the Beginning

- 5: Cosmology by Numbers

- 6: What's the Matter?

- 7: The Emergence of Structure

- 8: The Future

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Coles is Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics and Head of the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the University of Sussex. He has co-written two textbooks on cosmology, and over a hundred technical articles on various aspects of the Big Bang theory. He is also author of Einstein and the Total Eclipse and Hawking and the Mind of God.