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Ideally suited to a oneyear graduate course, this textbook is also a useful reference for researchers. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as cds or access codes. Provides uniquely selfcontained and detailed accounts of the ideas and formulas that are used and tested in modern cosmological research. Syllabus the early universe physics mit opencourseware. The book is a successor to weinberg s 1972 textbook gravitation and cosmology. Cosmology edition 1 by steven weinberg 9780198526827. Unique in basing relativity on the principle of equivalence of gravitation and inertia over. Texas destiny texas trilogy book 1 pdf book download online.
The book is a successor to weinbergs 1972 textbook gravitation and cosmology. Steven weinberg this book is unique in the detailed, selfcontained, and comprehensive treatment that it gives to the ideas and formulas that are used and tested in modern cosmological research. I expected that this book would be similar to carl sagans cosmos. Open library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Steven weinberg wrote the best book on general relativity in history.
Cosmology by steven weinberg, 2008, oxford university press edition, in english cosmology 2008 edition open library. It divides into two parts, each of which provides enough material for a onesemester graduate course. Steven weinberg is a theoretical physicist who along with abdus salam and sheldon glashow won the nobel prize in physics for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current. And applications of the general theory of relativity. But, unlike cosmos, i found to explain the world to be overly long and tedious. Although there are now many popular monographs on cosmology, there are so far no introductory textbooks at university undergraduate level. A nobel laureate, he has pioneered both in relativity and quantum theory. Principles and applications of the general theory of relativity edition 1. Steven weinberg has 62 books on goodreads with 98290 ratings. Between then and now between 2008 and 2018, we have witnessed a plethora of speculation, the multiverse being an example. So much has happened in cosmology since the 1960s that this book necessarily bears little resemblance to my 1972 treatise, gravitation and. Steven weinberg s most popular book is the first three minutes. Click download or read online button to cosmology book pdf for free now.
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