The Cosmic Microwave Background
"Professor Durrer's book is an admirable achievement. First of all, it is a pleasure to read in its very clear, lucid and sometimes laconic style. It is full of remarkably deep insights, showing up in many places where conceptual difficulties are usually swept under the rug. Not so in this book, which clearly articulates them together with their solution. ... On the whole, I believe that Professor Durrer's book is a masterpiece which appears at exactly the right time. Although it superbly covers a remarkably broad range of subjects, it leaves the impression of being written with ease. From the first to the last page, it is a pleasure to read, and it is an extremely rich source of knowledge and insight. It illustrates and summarizes the physics of one of the cornerstones of modern cosmology, and it will certainly serve generations of graduate students and researchers as an inspiring guide to CMB physics." - Matthias Bartelmann, General Relativity and Gravitation"Durrer's book is a distillation of years of development of CMP theory into a single coherent and unified story. It links theory and observations and teaches how to connect the two to learn about the universe. ...graduate advisors should have [the book] ready to hand out to their graduate students as the need arises. I will definitely keep [it] on my shelf." - Physics Today