The Deep Universe
Subtitle: Saas-Fee Advanced Course 23. Lecture Notes 1993. Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy (Saas-Fee Advanced Courses)
Contributors: Bruno Binggeli (Editor); Roland Buser (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: December 28, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 526
ISBN-13: 9783540589136
Subjects: Cosmology & the universe; Science; Cosmology (Astronomy); Science/Mathematics; Astronomy - Universe; Science / Astronomy; Universe
Description: This book provides a first-hand account of modern cosmology, written by three celebrated astronomers renowned for their excellence in both research and teaching. The central theme of the book, the deep Universe, is approached in three truly complementary ways: as a coherent and smooth theory embracing the evolution of the Universe from its original radiations emerging from the hot Big Bang to the present structures of matter; as a meandering, rough road paved by our observations of stars, galaxies, and clusters; and in terms of how these approaches have been gradually developed and intertwined in the historical process that led to the modern science of cosmology. The book is written for graduate students in astrophysics but is also of interest to professional astronomers and particle physicists.