THEORETICAL COSMOLOGY
Written by A.K. Raychaudhuri
Published by Oxford University Press
in 1979
ISBN: 019851462X
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THEORETICAL COSMOLOGY
Written by A.K. Raychaudhuri.
Stock no. 686770
1st.
1979.
Hardback.
Very good condition.
Today cosmology is one of the most exciting and at the same time confusing subjects. The book aims to convey to the reader some of the excitement while not hiding the confusions that remain. Thus while evidences of the microwave background radiation and the abundances of deuteron and helium as bringing support for the standard big bang cosmology are dealt with in fair details, the unsolved puzzle of some apparently anomalous red shifts and the tendency towards a negative parameter also receive attention... Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. x and 298 pages including index. ISBN: 019851462X. Spine faded. Text block browned. Contents clean.
Front cover
Contents
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Newtonian Gravitation and Cosmology
- Chapter 3. General Relativity and Relativistic Cosmology
- Chapter 4. The Analysis of Observational Data
- Chapter 5. Relativistic Models Not Obeying the Cosmological Principle
- Chapter 6: The Microwave Radiation Background
- Chapter 7. Thermal History of the Universe and Nucleosynthesis
- Chapter 8. The Singularity of Cosmological Models
- Chapter 9. The Gravitational Constant as a Field Variable
- Chapter 10. Cosmological Models Based on Einstein-Cartan Theory
- Chapter 11. The Cosmological Singularity in Two Recent Theories
- Chapter 12. Fate of Perturbations of Isotropic Universes
- Chapter 13. The Formation of Galaxies
- Chapter 14. Baryon Symmetric Cosmology
- Chapter 15. Some Assorted Topics
- Appendix