The Starry Messenger. In Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo. Translated by S. Drake. Doubleday, Garden City, New York, 1957. Gershenson, D. E. and Greenberg, D. A. Anaxa- goras and the Birth of Physics. Blaisdell, New York, 1964.
This book endeavors to be elementary and the needed background is minimal at the college level. A good high school education is a sufficient preparation for a large fraction of the material.
... scenario for the very early universe (Guth 1981; Guth and Pi 1982) produce a power-law form P(k) I Ak”, (15.4.4) with a preference in some cases for the Harrison—Zel'dovich form with n = 1 (Harrison 1970; Zel'dovich 1972).
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A quantitative 1995 account of the science of cosmology, designed for a non-specialist audience.
Longair , M. S. Editor . Confrontation of Cosmological Theories With Observational Facts . Reidel , Dordrecht , Holland , 1974 . Longair , M. S. " Observational cosmology . " Reports on Progress in Physics 34 , No. 12 ( 1971 ) .
This is a uniquely comprehensive and detailed treatment of the theoretical and observational foundations of modern cosmology, by a Nobel Laureate in Physics.
Based on the author's popular lecture notes, this graduate-level textbook provides an accessible and self-contained introduction to cosmology, ideal as a course companion or for self-study.
Originally published: Cosmology. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1960.
... two accelerated expansion phases could call for a common explanation, we are still far from a complete understanding of the physics determining such an evolution. The goal of this last chapter is to review ... OF CMB TEMPERATURE ANISOTROPY.
The book is ideally suited as a course companion or for self-study. With all necessary background material covered, students have everything they need to establish an unrivalled understanding of the subject.
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