Cosmology (2008) is a textbook about cosmology by American physicist Steven Weinberg. The textbook is intended for final-year physics undergraduates or first-year graduate students. The book is a successor to Weinberg's 1972 textbook Gravitation and Cosmology.
Summary
Chapters
- 1. The Expansion of the Universe
- 2. The Cosmic Microwave Radiation Background
- 3. The Early Universe
- 4. Inflation
- 5. General Theory of Cosmological Fluctuations
- 6. Evolution of Cosmological Fluctuations
- 7. Anisotropies in the Microwave Sky
- 8. The Growth of Structure
- 9. Gravitational Lensing
- 10. Fluctuations from Inflation
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