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Introduction to Cosmology / Edition 4
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Introduction to Cosmology / Edition 4
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The Fourth Edition of
provides a concise, authoritative study of cosmology at an introductory level. Starting from elementary principles and the early history of cosmology, the text carefully guides the student on to curved spacetimes, special and general relativity, gravitational lensing, the thermal history of the Universe, and cosmological models, including extended gravity models, black holes and Hawking's recent conjectures on the not-so-black holes.
- New theoretical approaches and in-depth material on observational astrophysics and expanded sections on astrophysical phenomena
- Illustrations throughout and comprehensive references with problems at the end of each chapter and a rich index at the end of the book
- Latest observational results from WMAP9, ACT, and Planck, and all cosmological parameters have been brought up to date.